HEALTHCARE ESTATES
Supporting ‘the digital reinvention’ of hospitals
Acute care is evolving as never before, and with New Hospital Programme, and the adoption of virtual wards, the digital reinvention of the hospital is happening right now. So says Ascom, which is supporting both NHS and private healthcare estates by delivering ‘end-to-end ‘clinical communication and collaboration technology solutions. It said: “Through this, we are assisting in closing digital information gaps across hospital estates, enabling clinicians to make vital decisions anywhere, and at any time.” The Ascom Healthcare Platform is ‘all about creating better outcomes’. The solutions Ascom provides enable the entire communications workflow, with a ‘connected patient’ focus and common system architecture. This includes ‘smart’ solutions such as smart nurse call, care
‘Eco-friendly’
disposable cubicle curtains
Yewdale manufactures a range of healthcare products widely used across the UK, including hospital curtains, cubicle tracks, and anti-ligature systems.
coordination, MDI, alarm management, ‘and more’. Ascom works with hospital Estates
teams ‘to customise the solutions to suit the requirements of a given site’ – from a brand new estate prior to building, to a new digital ward in an existing hospital. Ultimately, it says, the four outcomes its solutions help deliver are an improved patient and clincial experience, better outcomes, and lower cost.
Improving patient flow at Great Western waiting and clinical flows, a significant
Gilling Dod Architects has been working with Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to improve the current Emergency and Urgent Care Department flows and efficiency at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.
The first part of this ‘transformation’ involves creating a new point of access and a high-quality environment for patients, staff, and visitors, at the hospital’s Urgent Treatment Centre. This will provide separate adult and children’s
increase in consultant spaces, and new plaster and Ophthalmology rooms. Gilling Dod said: “Designed with input from patients and staff, the UTC is inclusive and accessible for all, with the Trust’s first ever Changing Places facility for children and adults with disabilities, block colour palettes for patients with dementia, lowered reception desk access for wheelchair users, and expansive ‘sky ceilings’ to bring the outside in. “A new Energy Centre will generate sustainable power, helping the Trust achieve its Net Zero Carbon goals.” The next stage of the IFD clinical model is the expansion of the Emergency Department, and completing the link to the new Urgent Treatment centre.
‘In-house’ water testing for P. aeruginosa
IDEXX Water provides a complete system to enable the detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which it says ‘is simple, reliable, accurate, and cost- effective’. It said: “For Facilities managers,
the system offers rapid testing and results that can be used confidently to determine either presence/absence or a quantified result.” Whereas traditional culture methods
require laboratory processing, the IDEXX Pseudalert test can be carried out in- house at a hospital by trained staff. The
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set-up for running Pseudalert tests needs very little space and equipment, and a user can process a sample in under a minute, while the interpretation of results is as simple as observing a colour change. Pseudalert gives quantified results in
just 24 hours, and was published as ISO standard 16266-2 in 2018. Undertaking the test ‘in-house’
reduces the time spent transporting samples to laboratories and waiting for results, and allows for more frequent routine detection and trend analysis. IDEXX said: “By empowering Facilities managers to take control of sampling, analysis, and detection, and having assurance and confidence in the results, Pseudalert can potentially save lives among some of the most seriously ill and vulnerable populations in hospitals.”
It has created ‘an eco-friendly disposable curtain with a unique patent-pending design’, replacing plastic eyelets with simple hook hollows. The company said: “Removing the surplus plastic eyelets reduces raw materials and energy consumed during production, and saves up to 100 grams of plastic per curtain.”
The curtains are ‘100% recyclable’, and are created in Yewdale’s UK facility, ‘reducing their carbon footprint significantly’.
Yewdale recently joined the NHS supply chain for disposable curtains and shower curtains. It said: “Being an approved supplier requires our disposable curtains to meet the following NHS criteria: n Easy to hang and change. n Date labels to show when a curtain needs to be replaced.
n Ideal for acute areas requiring quick curtain changes.
n Passed BS 5867-2:2008 flammability requirements.”
The disposable curtains are available in five colours, and with a range of reusable curtain hooks that ensures seamless gliding.
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