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Award-winning medical gas installation, maintenance, and innovation
SHJ Medical Gas Specialists, awarded the title of Healthcare Supplier of the Year at the 2021 Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards, has been supplying the NHS and private sector with medical gas pipeline systems and services for over 50 years.
‘Renowned for leading the industry in AI-driven techniques of medical gas plant control’, its core business is offering a fully bespoke service, which includes drawings, design, installations, servicing, refurbishments, upgrades, PPM, and emergency plant hire. The company’s team of in-house estimating engineers, project managers, and CAD technicians, designs medical gas pipeline systems for medical refurbishments, upgrades,
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manifolds, alarm systems, theatre equipment, and anaesthetic gas scavenging systems.
Highlighting the robustness of the business and service offering, managing director, Stafford Scopes, said: “Our medical gas installations are fully tested at each stage, and upon completion, are certified in accordance with the requirements of HTM 02-01, ISO 13485, and ISO 9001. All our engineers are directly employed by us and fully trained to Competent Person level, with some trained to Authorised Person and Quality Control level.
“2022 was a busy year for SHJ, with a number of high- profile installations in conjunction with industry-leading
and new-builds, collaborating with architects and building contractors up and down the country. CAD drawings are created in both 2D and 3D, meaning that the resulting design work can easily be incorporated into Building Information Modelling systems.
SHJ also works directly with NHS and private sector hospitals on plant installations, including pipework for new and upgrade projects, medical vacuum plant, medical air plant,
building contractors. The flow of new projects continues, with current installation projects including ITU upgrades, re-development of Acute Services blocks, and new ward builds.”
SHJ Medical Gas Specialists Unit 4, Anglo Business Park Asheridge Road, Chesham Bucks HP5 2QA T: 01494 782168 E:
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In December, the New Hospitals Programme team made clear that all future new hospitals in England should be 100% single patient room. In an article on pages 31-34 considering the ‘pros and cons’ of such accommodation, three senior personnel at London-based public service consultants, Te PSC, discuss some of the current study evidence on such rooms’ benefits – including enhanced infection control, a quieter, more therapeutic environment, and the additional flexibility single rooms offer to hospitals in how they use their bed base. Tey also focus on some potential drawbacks – for example the additional square footage nursing and clinical staff must cover, and some negative staff perceptions on their ability to deliver care, and the impact on training and teamwork. Against this backdrop, the authors say addressing the concerns of staff, and particularly nurses – who tend to be ward-based – will be crucial to ensure that these new hospitals adopt single patient rooms safely and efficiently. Te article’s writers also stress that to maximise
the potential benefits of single patient rooms, and ‘mitigate the potential risks’, requires a care model approach ‘distinct from those in place for wards’ when new 100% single-bedded hospitals are planned. Clinically-led planning, redesigned processes, and digital innovation must – they argue – be integrated into Trusts’ business cases, designs, and estates strategies, ‘from the outset’. Talking of the New Hospital Programme, in
the first in a planned series of articles from senior NHP personnel, Transformation director and Chief Nurse, Josie Rudman, outlines on pages 28-29 ‘the programme’s ambition, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead’, describing it as ‘a once-in-a-generation opportunity to re-think our approach to the NHS – much more than a set of new buildings; it’s a whole new way of working’ – very much in accord with the views of the authors from Te PSC. She warns that with the service already ‘stretched’, the ‘NHS can’t afford any productivity losses’; thus ‘operational readiness teams need to be involved in the new hospital build at least 18 months before construction ends’. She says: “Opening hospitals safely involves looking at the process not only from a clinical standpoint, but also FM and digital commissioning, preparing the workforce, and transforming models of care in readiness for the new environment.” Quite a range of issues to address to ensure that this new tranche of hospitals fulfil their promise and can ‘flex’ sufficiently to meet ever-evolving clinical demands.
Jonathan Baillie,
Editor jonathanbaillie@
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