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Ceiling supply units designed to enhance workflow efficiency


Dräger says it new ceiling supply units, Ambia and Ponta, available in a variety of colours, and featuring ‘user-friendly ergonomics’, are designed both to help make workflows in the operating theatre, neonatology, or intensive care unit, more efficient, and to help prevent infection spread.


The company said: “Equally, with more connection options for medical devices and accessories at all four corners of the column, and greater capacity for electrical and gas outlets that can be freely positioned, the new Ambia and Ponta ceiling supply units allow individual configuration in intensive care units, or in the operating theatre, for even more efficient care. With their coordinated colour concepts and décor variants, Ambia and Ponta offer easy integration into any room, while a variety of colour and wood décors are available for the drawers to create an attractive overall ambience. Lighting options feature warm, glare-free light, using the RGB colour model. The new ceiling supply units thus contribute to a calming therapeutic atmosphere.”


To allow ‘more intuitive positioning’ of the ceiling supply units, the handles have touch-sensitive sensors that automatically release the brakes. The handle positions can be adapted to suit individual work processes, and the handles can be retrofitted. In addition, rounded profiles and smooth disinfection- resistant materials help make the Ponta and Ambia units quick and easy to clean and disinfect, while ‘sophisticated’ cable management in the shafts reduces the accumulation of dirt. Dräger added: “A touchless working environment, including ceiling and floor lights, also contributes toward preventing infection.”


£1.7 billion funding bid to improve healthcare in and around Bradford


Europe’s ‘first carbon-neutral’ hospital, a mental health facility replacing a Victorian building, and a single hospital site bringing two hospitals together – all in and around Bradford – form part of an ambitious proposal submitted to the Government on 9 September. The joint circa £1.7 bn funding bid, submitted by the Act as One health and care partnership covering Bradford District and Craven, and serving over 647,000 people, is in addition to three individual proposals submitted by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The proposals are backed by NHS Bradford District and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group, Bradford Council, and the West Yorkshire


& Harrogate Health and Care Partnership. The plans would see: n Rebuilding of Airedale Hospital on its current site with the ambition of creating Europe’s first ‘carbon-neutral’ hospital. The current building is over 60 years’ old.


n Rebuilding the Lynfield Mount inpatient mental healthcare facility to develop a new acute inpatient facility that integrates mental health and neurodiversity within the community – with a focus on redeveloping the centrally located main block. The hospital would take a ‘health campus’ approach to deliver wider services, working with partners.


n Replacing Bradford Royal Infirmary and St. Luke’s Hospital with a single-site purpose-built hospital (see artist’s impression). The new hospital forms part of Bradford Council’s Core Strategy, ‘which sets out the strategic direction to create a sustainable future for the district’, which has a young and growing population. This, coupled with the Trust’s ageing estate and high maintenance costs, drive the need for strategic healthcare planning and exploring options to secure funding for future large-scale development.


16 Health Estate Journal November 2021


Letter to the Editor I have read the article entitled ‘'Greener


steam technology bridges the utilities gap' by Aggreko's Craig Fleming published on pages 56-58 of the October 2021 HEJ, which includes a photograph on page 56 of an operative using a steam (gun) in an open space, the possible alternative being compressed air? In either case this is incorrect, and intimates that this is a normal accepted procedure in the UK, which it is not. The use of compressed air is usually restricted to the Inspection Assembly and Packing room, where the hand piece usage is contained in a closed ventilated cabinet. Whether or not this practice is commonplace outside the UK I am unaware, but the picture is suggestive that steam is being used because the article refers to the use of steam, and not compressed air. Subsequent communication with Aggreko via the Editor showed that the picture did indeed indicate that steam was being used, and my concern is that decontamination staff who read the article will believe that this is an accepted practice, and could attempt to install such a system in the UK, which would be against current guidance. I therefore feel that clarification of the above is required from the author as to the validity of the picture within the UK decontamination arena.


Dr John A Kerry


Consultant Microbiologist Registered AE(D)


Aggreko responds “It was brought to our attention that


an image used on page 56 of the October 2021 Health Estate Journal as part of the article ‘Greener steam technology bridges the utilities gap’ was not an accurate representation of a steam process carried out in UK hospitals. The image was sourced from an online library, and intended to contextualise the subject matter. However, it appears it was taken from outside of the UK, and therefore we apologise for this misrepresentation.” Craig Fleming Sector leader


NHS & Government Services Aggreko Northern Europe


©Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust


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