COMMENT IHEEM Digital Week highlighted sector’s challenges


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The last seven months have set unprecedented challenges for all healthcare staff, from frontline clinicians, to estates and facilities professionals. Despite considerable disagreement as to how best to stem the virus’s spread, few would disagree that strengthening hygiene practices in all settings where individuals meet, congregate, or are treated, is fundamental.


For all those working in healthcare, there have been additional challenges to contend with, but for healthcare estates professionals, the ongoing goals of ensuring that patients can continue to be looked after in clean, safe, and fit-for-purpose environments, and that there is sufficient capacity to accommodate them, have remained the same.


Speaking in the opening webinar in IHEEM’s Digital Week last month, Simon Corben, head of Profession for Estates & Facilities at NHSI/NHSE, praised the profession’s ‘fantastic response’, and discussed some of the additional pressures both for his team and the wider EFM community. These ranged from ensuring that hospital oxygen supplies were sufficient for an increasing influx of COVID patients, to lightning-fast conversion of existing non-clinical facilities to emergency hospitals.


Overall, Digital Week – held in the week COVER STORY


that, had circumstances been ‘normal’, Healthcare Estates 2020 would have taken place in Manchester – provided five days of interesting and topical subject matter. In all some 3,000 attendees from 33 countries heard 41 sessions, with 33 hours of content, and 93 UK and international speakers. Those unable to attend, but who would like to hear/ view the presentations, can view them at https://www.healthcare-estates.com/webinars In this month’s HEJ we report on the extremely wide-ranging discussion in the opening webinar, hosted by IHEEM CEO, Pete Sellars, where, following a very interesting presentation, Simon Corben took questions, both about the impact of COVID-19 on the EFM community, and on a broad spectrum of other topics.


Our second Digital Week article covers a fascinating address by Professor Cath Noakes of the University of Leeds, who discussed how the coronavirus is transmitted, some of the key preventative measures, and the implications for the engineering of healthcare buildings. The next few issues of HEJ will include further coverage of the presentations that made up a successful Digital Week.


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Intelligent care – ‘water controls like no other’


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When it comes to creating and maintaining healthcare estates, the challenges have never been greater.


So says water controls expert, Rada, which adds: “We’re facing the biggest infection control crisis in a generation with COVID-19. The need to help address climate change with long-term sustainable building solutions is also increasingly urgent. Now is the time to reconsider every part of the estate, to ensure that it meets today’s demands, and helps create a better future. High-performing taps are an essential part. They help ensure that your duty of care is met, and that facilities are working efficiently. Intelligent Care, Rada’s latest generation of digital taps for healthcare, helps achieve exactly that.” Intelligent Care ‘combines smart design and engineering with advanced digital control’ – all, Rada says, ‘to set a new standard for how a tap leads to cleaner, safer, and more efficient spaces’: n Promoting cleanliness and hand hygiene. Non-touch temperature and flow controls minimise the spread of viruses and bacteria. Programmable water flow times and temperatures encourage


handwashing best-practice. n Enhancing infection control. An advanced digital valve sits within the tap, built from materials with increased microbe resistance. Programmable duty flushing and thermal disinfection help remove harmful pathogens from the system.


n Optimising water safety and management. Precise digital control, monitoring and smart duty flushing free up staff resource and save water and energy.


Automated data logging proves user compliance with guidelines.


Rada adds: “With basin and panel-mounted options, and advanced programmable features, Intelligent Care can meet the needs of every healthcare space. Invest in the answer to your water safety needs, from the experts in healthcare water controls.” Rada – a Kohler Company Cromwell Road, Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5EP T: 0344 571 1777


E: rada_technical@mirashowers.com www.radacontrols.com


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