CONTENTS IHEEM REGULARS
5 COMMENT 7 INSTITUTE NEWS
10 HEALTH SECTOR NEWS
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
FEATURES 19 BRACING FACILITIES FOR PANDEMICS’ IMPACT
The Director for the MSc Healthcare Management programme at Anglia Ruskin University argues that while NHS clinical and estates personnel have undertaken tremendous work during the coronavirus outbreak, a re-think is needed on making healthcare facilities more resilient to events such as pandemics.
24 BETTER WAYS TO CONTROL HAIS POST COVID-19
The Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering reports on the encouraging and committed response from engineers to a call at the start of the ‘lockdown’ for engineers ‘to help identify solutions, organisations, and contacts’ that could support the response to COVID-19.
29 CHALLENGING PROTEIN RESIDUE REMOVAL METHODS
Mark Campbell, Decontamination Service manager in the Hospital Disinfection & Sterilisation Unit at the University Hospital of Wales, and Graham Stanton IEng, FIHEEM, AE (D), who spent 35 years in specialist NHS sterilisation and decontamination roles, describe the latest thinking on ways to remove protein residue from surgical instruments.
34 DEALING RESPONSIBLY WITH COVID-19 PPE WASTE
Graham Flynn, MD of technology-based clinical waste management company, Anenta, says that ‘the most pertinent and repeated question’ the company has received in recent days is ‘How should we manage clinical waste in relation to the COVID-19 crisis?’ Here he explains how such waste can be safely and responsively disposed of.
37 CHANGES AS WE RETURN TO ‘THE NEW NORMAL’ Emma Bolton of Community Ventures (Management), and Louise English of North Tees and Hartlepool Solutions, consider how the physical healthcare environment can continue to provide a safe, fit-for-purpose setting for high quality care following the coronavirus outbreak.
42 HELPING CLINICIANS TO DO THEIR JOB ‘BETTER’
Paul Lawrence, MD at Ascom, offers ‘a simple guide to help choose the best communication devices for clinicians’, and discusses a bespoke solution for emergency response locations developed in consultation with healthcare clients, ‘specifically to help in the frontline fight’.
45 SHIELDING FROM COVID-19 IN PHARMACIES
As the coronavirus spreads, so our understanding grows that healthcare personnel must be protected from contracting the virus at work. Prof. Parastou Donyai believes, however, that some community pharmacists have been left to fend for themselves on shielding arrangements.
49 TRUST ‘LEADS WAY’ ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION
Last summer The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of England’s largest acute teaching hospital Trusts, became the world’s first healthcare organisation to declare a Climate Emergency.
54 ANTIBACTERIAL EFFICACY OF SILVER IN HOSES
A Filtration Project manager at Johs. Tandrup A/S discusses a laboratory study where Tandrup’s T-Safe antibacterial hoses incorporating a silver-based bacteriostatic additive significantly outperformed additive-free control hoses in reducing mean aerobic bacterial counts of P. aeruginosa after 8-12 weeks.
58 UP-TO-DATE STANDARDS FOR DISINFECTANTS
Dr Tim Sandle, a Chartered Biologist and honorary tutor within the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Manchester, discusses why the most up-to-date standards should always be considered when selecting cleaning and disinfection products.
62 MAINTAINING A PEST-FREE HOSPITAL
David Cross, head of the Technical Training Academy at Rentokil Pest Control, and Paul Casson, Technical field manager at Rentokil Specialist Hygiene, look at some of the pest control challenges facing healthcare estates.
65 DELIVERING PROJECTS WITH MINIMAL DISRUPTION
Modern methods of construction have become increasingly popular for a variety of healthcare buildings in recent years – for reasons including rapid completion, and greater controllability of both quality and schedules.
68 SIMPLE DESIGNS AND LOW MAINTENANCE
Access to a safe water supply is critical in healthcare environments, and complying with HTM 04-01 is crucial for estates and facilities managers, suppliers, and NHS management teams. Heatrae Sadia outlines the key challenges in delivering water into a clinical setting.
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16 COVER STORY: INTELLIGENT CARE: SETTING NEW STANDARDS IN INFECTION CONTROL TO CREATE BETTER PATIENT CARE
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