HEALTHCARE ESTATES 2020 SHOWCASE Portable screen to help stop COVID-19 spread
Intastop has launched IntaScreen Hygiene Guard, a portable, lightweight screen designed to prevent the spread of droplets from sneezing, coughing, and talking, in between work areas, to help protect people against the spread of COVID-19.
The company says that, using a simple slotting system, ‘it can be built in seconds and easily transferred from one area to another’. “This is a lightweight yet sturdy solution to help protect people from the spread of COVID,” explained Marketing manager, Lisa Turner. “We are experts in working with and developing protective
products that ensure people – whether workers, visitors, or customers, are kept safe.”
The hygiene guard and supporting feet are made from a clear PETG, ensuring clear and unobstructed viewing and safe interaction. The guard itself requires no tools to install, while, due to its durability, it can be moved from area to area depending on individual needs. A smooth surface facilitates cleaning.
Intastop said: “Available in 800 mm wide x 650 mm high dimensions, the screen is entirely suitable for healthcare facilities, schools, and offices.”
Practical training very much at its heart
Despite the upheaval due to COVID-19, Eastwood Park says new additions to its training programme this year still took place, including the launch of a ‘Safe management of healthcare waste’ course, focusing on the HTM 07-01 guidelines.
The training centre said: “We also introduced a new pressure systems course, ‘Pressure systems hazards and responsibilities’, following the success of Skilled and Authorised Person training. We offer highly practical learning
environments – including HV & LV facilities, decontamination labs, a three- storey lift training tower, a live MGPS system, and more. With additional workstations, reduced numbers, and COVID-secure measures, our team has worked hard to ensure no compromise on the real-life experience for learners. We do have an update on our healthcare engineering degrees and a new start date of April 2021, due to the challenges the universities have been facing. “We are also delighted that our new training facility will be handed over imminently, ready for the healthcare ‘fit-out’.
Eastwood Park is a leading UK provider of hospital engineering, decontamination, and estates and facilities management training within healthcare. Its accredited training is delivered ‘to the majority of NHS Trusts and private medical organisations’, both within the UK and worldwide.
‘Smart technology’ helps manage wards already having invested in a nurse call
During the COVID-19 pandemic Static Systems Group (SSG) says it has been helping healthcare teams ‘transform their hospitals into automated and more efficient environments, with benefits for improved safety and care’, using solutions available within its Fusion Healthcare Platform. SSG said: “By introducing VoIP speech to nurse call for example, it is possible for staff to assess patients needing help without entering the patient’s room, and to reset calls without pressing any buttons.” Recently launched products include the Ultima and Codemlon attack alarm solutions, and a new range of bedhead services trunking. Statics Systems explains that, ‘with the majority’ of the UK’s acute hospitals
system from the company, it has developed attack alarm solutions which use exactly the same technology platform – allowing existing infrastructure, mobile, and indicating devices, to be multi- purposed. It said: “The many benefits include reduced installation, set-up, and running costs, as well as ease of use for staff, because they will already be familiar with the system.” The Inseta Headwall, meanwhile, is a flush-fitting bedhead services trunking solution designed with flexibility and build efficiency in mind. Units complement SSG’s Modus surface- mounted product ranges, and can also form an integrated part of the CS Omniwall pre-fabricated walling system.
Thanks for its work from Trust COO
Geoffrey Robinson is an NHS P22 construction partner, part of the IHP construction framework, and directly employs over 170 people, with a wide breadth of mechanical, electrical, ventilation, construction, and fire stopping experience.
Earlier this year it helped NHS England and the North East NHS Trusts in designing, building, installing, and commissioning the NHS Nightingale Hospital North East in Sunderland. The project was undertaken during the initial COVID-19 lockdown period, at short notice, with directors and senior engineers meeting with the Trust personnel to develop the building and each bed station requirement. The firm’s work included increasing the Natural Gas incomer, raising the electrical capacity, and providing integrated heating, and ventilation to provide clean, filtered fresh air. It also provided pressurised medical gas to all 460 beds, additional hot and cold water in each ward, fire stopping, fire detection, and integrated data infrastructure.
Martin Wilson, Executive lead, Nightingale Hospital North East, & COO of Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: ‘To build a new hospital in just a few short weeks is a truly remarkable endeavour – thank you for all you have done to create the NHS Nightingale Hospital North East.’
October 2020 Health Estate Journal 105
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