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Starkstrom and KLS Martin – the ultimate power couple transforming operating rooms
Join the growing community of healthcare professionals who have chosen KLS Martin operating lights distributed by Starkstrom at over 250 hospitals in the UK.
Starkstrom said: “As UK distributor of the premium KLS Martin operating and examination lights, Starkstrom enjoys a successful relationship spanning 20 years, and together we
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management, the lights can be placed and forgotten about, allowing clinicians to concentrate 100% on the job in hand. Ultra-hygienic, the KLS Martin lights offer class-leading infection control, and have passed independent testing under UCV canopies. Excellent reliability and energy efficiency contribute both to cutting the hospital’s carbon footprint, and reducing operating
share 170 years in the medical industry. Partnering with KLS Martin creates a unique combination that supports the needs of modern surgery, and also offers expert consultancy and leading-edge technologies. Starkstrom has 50 years’ experience in electrical engineering, delivering power to all hospital departments, and offering integrated solutions for IPS, UPS, battery back-ups, operating lights, clinical pendants, surgeons’ panels, and PACS, from our UK head office and manufacturing base in Syston, Leicestershire.”
A large part of our success – the company says – is the premium range of KLS Martin MarLED E and X series operating lights. It said: “With the highest quality optics delivering perfect illumination and shadow
downtime in theatres.
“At Starkstrom we fully understand the importance of making an informed purchasing decision, and for that reason we offer mobile lights for trial, together with competitive rental options to reduce theatre downtime when your old lights fail you. For further information, visit our website at
www.starkstrom.com. To arrange a trial or mobile rental, email info@starkstrom. com, or telephone +44 (0)116 464 7480.”
Starkstrom 33 Turn Street Syston
Leicestershire LE7 1HP Email:
info@starkstrom.com T: +44 (0)116 464 7480
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Sustainability vs day-to-day pressures
Last month I attended two excellent conferences where, unsurprisingly, one of the main topics discussed was the work that all across the NHS – but especially healthcare engineering and estate management staff – are doing to help the service meet its challenging Net Zero carbon targets. At the first, IHEEM’s Wales Regional
Conference in Cardiff, speakers including the Director General of Health and Social Services, NHS Wales, Judith Paget, Director, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership – Estates Services, Stuart Douglas, and Senior Fire Safety Adviser at NWSSP ES, Anthony Pitcher, discussed topics ranging from the future of the NHS in Wales, and the current challenges facing Estates Services there, to key fire safety considerations when using ‘sustainable and natural’ materials such as wood in new buildings. All the speakers highlighted the task facing healthcare EFM personnel seeking to balance sustainability imperatives with addressing day-to-day challenges such as dealing with a sizeable maintenance backlog, and securing the funding to keep their buildings in fit-for-purpose and compliant condition. At the University & Healthcare Estates & Innovation conference a few days later in Dublin, sustainability was again to the fore, as speakers from both sectors highlighted how similar the challenges they face are. Reports on both events will feature in subsequent issues. On the subject of estate investment, and
work to improve the sustainability of public buildings, in late March (see pages 23-28), I met with Rob Few, East Cheshire NHS Trust’s Associate Director for Estates & Facilities, at Macclesfield District General Hospital. Tere he explained the wide range of improvements currently ongoing to the Trust’s built estate, which are coupled with a concerted carbon and energy reduction drive. Both elements were made possible by the Trust securing significant funding over the past year and half. Te works at the hospital, and two other smaller hospital sites, are especially wide-ranging – from re-roofing of wards to construction of a new Elective Treatment Centre. He admitted progressing so many schemes simultaneously on busy ‘live’ sites had taken some managing, but stressed how pleased he and his Estates team were to have obtained the required funding. He was also extremely proud of the ‘buy-in’ from all involved – Trust staff, the architects, and external contractors – in working so well together to get the projects completed to the highest standard.
Jonathan Baillie,
Editor jonathanbaillie@
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