COMMENT IHEEM A focus on ‘Green Plans’


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One of the key imperatives facing NHS Trusts in England as part of the UK’s Climate Change commitments is to formulate, develop, measure progress with, and report on, at least annually, a Green Plan. In a recent webinar held in association with HEJ, two specialists in ‘green compliance’ from business utility and sustainability consultancy, Inenco, took an in-depth look at the Green Plans, the rationale behind them, and what NHS Trusts must do to create, develop, maintain, and measure an effective such plan. David Oliver and Beth Goodwin focused on the many different areas of activity where improvements to existing practice can be made to enable Trusts to play their part in the NHS-wide drive towards Net Zero carbon. However, for a Green Plan to succeed in, say, a large multi-site acute Trust, they stressed that securing ‘buy-in’ from a broad spectrum of personnel is key. With the past year dominated for NHS staff by hard work to bring down COVID-19 case numbers, the ‘green agenda’ remains a major issue for the service as a substantial energy user and carbon emitter. Indeed IHEEM has recently worked with the Carbon & Energy Fund and HEFMA to publish a new best practice guide, A Healthcare Engineering Roadmap for Delivering Net Zero Carbon, now available free digitally, and officially launched next month (see page 7).


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Keeping hospitals up to date with vital oxygen flow data


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Customers of SHJ Medical Gas Specialists have long been able to track the performance of their medical gas alarm systems using Evolution, which offers a remote multi-site monitoring and alert service 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Now SHJ has developed


, an Evolution ‘add-on’ which monitors in real-time flow rates from oxygen flow meters. Readings are updated every minute in K’nect, SHJ’s cloud-based customer data


FLO2


portal, helping engineers track oxygen use ‘anytime, anywhere’. The system alerts users by email and text when oxygen supplies are under threat, allowing a swift response. SHJ has installed flow meters and FLO2


in


several large London hospitals which have found the demand for oxygen threatening to exceed supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company says the new system is helping hospital managers analyse and optimise their oxygen use with greater accuracy than ever before.


SHJ said: “Evolution is a vital tool to improve


situational awareness of medical gas plant, and help healthcare engineers address issues and enhance productivity. It harnesses advances in AI and machine learning to remotely collect and process data in real-time. Equipped with sensors and alarm panels over Internet of Things (IoT) networks, this new data-driven model is dramatically changing the landscape of the medical gas sector. Qualitative and quantitative data analysis drives a next- generation decision support and


change actioning system to optimise the efficient operations of medical gas systems.” To explore how FLO2


and Evolution could


transform your management of oxygen flow and medical gas alarms, please contact SHJ.


SHJ Medical Gas Specialists Unit 4, Anglo Business Park Asheridge Road, Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 2QA T: 01494 782168 E: info@shj.co.uk www.shj.co.uk


Much has, of course, already been achieved to reduce the service’s carbon footprint, but, the two Inenco speakers emphasised, there remain many actions – both realistically achievable today – such as better insulation, reducing excessive water use, and replacing existing lighting with more energy-efficient LED variants, and to consider for the future. Increasingly, new-build healthcare facilities will need to be carbon-neutral or even carbon- positive, requiring ingenuity, adaptability, and technical skills from those designing and engineering tomorrow’s buildings. Last month saw IHEEM involved in National Apprenticeship Week 2021 – you can read about what a number of Company Affiliates and others are doing on this front on page 10. Among the attributes that will need to be developed by the young entrants to engineering that IHEEM and the wider profession believe will be key to its future prosperity will be ‘green skills’ and thinking in the widest sense. The seeds are surely already there; this is, after all, a generation that has grown up with the green agenda strongly promoted in schools, and ever-present in the printed, broadcast, and social media.


Jonathan Baillie I Editor jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


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