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The ‘right filter for the right outlet’ guaranteed
The recent Healthcare Estates 2022 Conference & Exhibition in Manchester marked the exclusive launch of the new ‘Medical Tap Filter Fixed Position’ product by T-safe, the Danish-based water filtration manufacturer. Featuring a fixed laminar flow outlet in a compact design, with a novel adapter mechanism, this latest addition to the company’s popular Medical Water Filter range incorporates the same T-safe technology that is trusted to deliver safe water in over 350 hospitals in the UK and Ireland. The all- new Medical Tap Filter Fixed Position offers more choice for users in selecting a compatible filter for problematic outlets, while also providing a bespoke solution for installations where a ‘shark fin’-style basin is utilised.
What’s new? n Outlet position: Traditionally, the T-safe Medical Tap Filter was renowned for its side-mounted installation and swivel function, which improves activity space and compatibility with sensor taps. This latest innovation features a fixed position outlet, where the water flows at a perpendicular angle to the tap spout.
n Compatibility: The Medical Tap Filter Fixed Position improves installation and operational compatibility with problematic taps and novel ‘shark fin’ sink basins. This provides more choice in tap filter selection, enabling a ‘right filter for the right outlet’ approach that improves patient safety and end- user experience.
n Adapter solution: A novel adapter mechanism enables ease of installation and exchange of filters with a smooth action release button. Featuring a solid brass body with a chrome finish, the adapter is ergonomic, hygienic, and durable.
n Size: A compact, modern design that reduces the impact on activity
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space, enabling effective handwashing for end- users. Despite its size, the new Medical Tap Filter Fixed Position doesn’t compromise on filtration capacity or flow performance, with a validated lifecycle of up to 31 days.
Managing director, Stephen McCreanor, said: “With the ever- increasing number of tap styles being used in healthcare, the challenge for Estates teams to deploy filters that are compatible in the event of a water safety emergency has never been greater. Tap compatibility is a critical consideration, as it may impede the operation of the outlet, breach WRAS or Water Regulations requirements, and ultimately compromise the filter, which puts patients at risk. The launch of our new Fixed Position Tap Filter will offer more choice to Estates teams in selecting the ‘right filter for the right outlet’.”
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Last month’s Healthcare Estates conference focused on four of the most topical issues for the sector – Workforce, Net Zero and Sustainability, Engineering & Facilities, and Strategic & Capital Planning. A broad range of presentations from speakers representing Trusts, academia, manufacturers, the architectural and design community, science and research, and Government, made the conference – the first face-to-face such IHEEM event since 2019 – a particularly interesting one. Te diverse topics covered ranged from the challenges of recruiting staff to a sector whose contribution to the safe and smooth running of healthcare facilities is very much underestimated, the drive towards Net Zero, the UK’s current reliance on other countries for a substantial proportion of our energy, and the need to step up own energy generation, to how clinical needs are shaping the design of new emergency departments, progress with New Hospital Programme, capital planning, and improving and refining hospital ventilation systems to reduce airborne infection. On pages 47-56 you can read about two of the thought- provoking keynotes on the event’s second day. IHEEM’s AGM, meanwhile, saw the Institute’s
first female President in its 79-year history, Alison Ryan, take up office from Paul Fenton, who she thanked for his ‘fantastic contribution’ in the preceding two years. Speaking briefly, both at the AGM, and in a President’s Address at the conference, she explained that her father’s hard work and dedication to his career – including regular study while he was working full-time – had seen her follow him into engineering. In an engaging address she set out her four key priorities as President – explaining that these were ‘inspiring the engineering innovators of the future’, working to support and encourage the modernisation and digitalisation of patient care, inspiring those at the forefront of the Net Zero carbon drive to build and refurbish more sustainably, and attracting more talent into the sector, and developing it once secured. On pages 35-38 you can discover more about
the new President’s key aims and ambitions, and her career and personal milestones to date. Tere is also news of a successful visit by Pete Sellars and Paul Fenton to the 27th IFHE Congress in Toronto (pages 18-19 and 23-28), where they presented to an international audience – drawing a very positive reception – on a new model for the planning of healthcare facilities based on ‘acuity’, a ‘common language’, and greater consideration of a hospital’s value to its region’s healthcare needs.
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