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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS ‘Sky Garden’opens at Chelsea and Westminster
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and its charity, CW+, have unveiled a new indoor botanical Sky Garden at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, designed by award-winning landscape designer and CW+ Artist in Residence, Jinny Blom. The Sky Garden will 'bring the outdoors inside, supporting the cognitive function, wellbeing, and rehabilitation of patients in intensive care’. CW+ aims to improve the patient environment and experience in the hospital. The Sky Garden is part of the redevelopment and expansion of the recently opened Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on the top floor, and has been installed adjacent to the ICU, with Jinny Blom ‘creating a transformative experience for both patients and staff, where they can escape into nature and feel transported away from the clinical environment’. Developed through consultation and design workshops with former patients and ICU staff, Jinny Blom’s idea was to create a space with multiple zones. One side of the garden is thus more ‘active’,
with a physiotherapy ramp for recovering patients, but there is also a sociable space for conversations or just some peace and quiet, ‘sleep pods’ – funded by NHS Charities Together – in a quiet corner for medical staff, and a ‘quiet zone’ where a patient can be brought on their bed and spend private time with family. The garden’s design takes its cue from Modernist architecture – ‘being very low toxin in its make-up’, as it is principally timber. Furniture has a calming colour palette, and uses soft-to-touch, yet hard- wearing lino, another natural product made of flax. Abundant planting
PPE decontamination solutions’ award shortlisting Two solutions for decontaminating
single-use and reusable personal protective equipment (PPE) used by healthcare staff during the COVID-19 pandemic have been shortlisted for the National Technology Awards. The ProXcide HPV decontamination robot and ProXpod portable decontamination chamber – developed by infection prevention and control specialist, Inivos – have been selected for the ‘Healthcare Tech of the Year’ category. Inivos launched the decontamination solutions following urgent customer demand for PPE at the start of the pandemic. The ‘challenge’ was to determine whether single-use PPE could be decontaminated safely for reuse. Inivos developed the ProXcide robot using hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) dispersal after test results revealed decontamination using UV-C was unable to expose the whole surface of PPE items. HPV dispersal was found to reach surfaces on target areas to neutralise pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, while retaining PPE integrity. Inivos said: “The other issue was controlling variable environmental parameters, such as temperature and humidity, to achieve the desired efficacy of PPE decontamination.
ameliorates the air and sound quality. The tree canopy shades the garden, and the plants will be cared for organically, without chemicals or pesticides. Jinny Blom, who also created a Greenhaven Garden at the rear of the hospital several years ago, said: “Gardens, quite simply, improve our lives. To go and sit among plants and nature, especially in the context of a bustling hospital, has an immediate positive impact on stress levels. The Sky Garden will provide an irreplaceable source of respite to those in need”.
Trystan Hawkins, director of Patient Environment at CW+, said: “Many of our patients, especially in ICU, are unable to leave the hospital, often for prolonged lengths of time, so having this space of tranquillity and nature will be invaluable.” The Trust says the ‘new, world-class’ adult and neonatal intensive care units which opened recently at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital provide ‘unique patient-centred care, and the latest innovations and digital solutions to improve patient experience and recovery’.
Automated inventory management South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation
“ProXpod was launched in March 2020 to remove uncertainty around these variables, and provide a purpose-built, portable decontamination chamber with monitoring systems.” When used in conjunction, the two technologies can reportedly decontaminate up to 3,000 FFP3/N95 respirators every 24 hours. At the pandemic’s peak, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was using up to 1200 FFP masks per day. Its tests demonstrated the Inivos system’s effectiveness without damaging the integrity or fit of masks, even after five successful decontamination cycles. In the trial, the ProXpod/ProXcide combination was able to locally decontaminate up to 600 respirators every four hours, and around 3,000 FFP3s every 24 hours, ‘nearly three times the hospital’s requirements’.
Trust has appointed Ingenica Solutions to automate inventory management processes across The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. Ingenica Solutions 360 IM will be implemented across the two acute sites to modernise the largely manual, current supply chain and inventory management approach. The ability to track and trace medical supplies, people, and equipment, will, Ingenica says, ‘facilitate efficiencies and transform standards of care at every point in the patient journey’. Using ‘innovative barcode technology’, Ingenica Solutions 360 IM will provide the Trust with real-time data access, and ‘a 360 degree view of costs’ to improve visibility and control, enabling effective purchasing. The Trust is also expected to secure substantial cost-savings, ‘reducing wastage and releasing clinical time from admin-led duties’. The 'solution' will initially be implemented across theatres and interventional departments at both hospitals, including cath labs, cardiology, radiology, and neuroradiology.
October 2021 Health Estate Journal 11
©Britt Willoughby-Dyer
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