CONTENTS IHEEM REGULARS 5 COMMENT


5 COVER STORY: A ‘HOST OF NEW FEATURES’ FOR ‘SECOND GENERATION’ TAP FILTERS


JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT


FEATURES 19 AUTONOMOUS RUNNING MAY SOON BE A REALITY


At a meeting last September at Chesham-based medical gas system specialist, SHJ, HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, learned how the company is increasingly harnessing AI, IOT, and edge computing to enhance its systems to run and fault-find almost autonomously. At a second meeting this February, the SHJ team reported on recent developments, and highlighted the features they believe make the company’s installation, servicing, maintenance, and technical back-up stand out.


26 COLLABORATION ENHANCES SYSTEM MANAGEMENT


Daniel Pitcher, managing director at the Water Hygiene Centre, describes how the Wye Valley NHS Trust and its PFI partner, Sodexo, worked together to significantly improve the safe and efficient management of the water system at Hereford County Hospital, enhancing existing monitoring and review systems, and making key data available to those who require it – such as Water Safety Group members – in a more accessible format.


30 DISPELLING SOME MYTHS AROUND COPPER SILVER Joris Post, director at Dutch- headquartered specialist in copper silver ionisation, ATECA, outlines some of the key benefits of using the technology to keep water systems free from Legionellaand other potentially harmful waterborne microorganisms. As he puts it, ‘every hospital, medical centre, and nursing home needs to be able to guarantee 100% safe water, and copper silver ionisation is the best way to get that’.


33 THE ‘PROS’ AND ‘CONS’ OF SILVER-BASED BIOCIDES


Altro says ‘recent years have seen the arguments for and against the use of silver-based biocides intensify’. Lucy Bilotto, Altro’s European Marketing manager, outlines the company’s concerns that ‘in the absence of firm evidence to support these claims’, these additives may be having no positive impact on infection control. Jennifer Collier, Partner Development manager at BioCote, a leading integrator of silver-based antimicrobial technology, counters with the case for such biocides’ benefits in a wide range of applications.


41 A POTENTIAL KILLER BENEATH OUR FEET Brian Back, founder of the Zero Pollution Network, who is also CEO and CTO of radio telemetry specialist, Radio Data Networks, discusses the significant health risks to patients, staff, and visitors, from blocked sewers and drains in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. He highlights some of the key technologies for detecting and dealing with blocked sewers and drains.


45 TRUST TARGETS 100% FLUSHING COMPLIANCE


A software system that automatically emails hundreds of clinical and non-clinical staff across three hospitals requesting confirmation that low-use toilets, showers, and taps have been regularly flushed in line with HTM 04-01 guidance, is reducing the chances of biofilm build-up, and thus of Legionella and P. aeruginosa colonisation, with, on average, 95-97% flushing compliance.


51 COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TRANSFORMS ESTATE


Darren Laybourn, director, Strategic lead, Network Newcastle & Teesside, and Global head of Healthcare at global construction consultancy, Turner & Townsend, explains how a partnership approach involving close collaborative working between all the key supply chain players has helped a mental health Trust ‘transform its estate against a patient-centric vision for excellence’.


56 THEATRE PROJECT BOOSTS CAPACITY AND JOBS


The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham has recently opened the first phase of a major theatre expansion using volumetric modular building technology. Here, Professor Philip Begg, the Trust’s executive director of Strategy and Delivery, and Alan Wilson, managing director of ModuleCo Healthcare, tell the story behind the new development.


60 ‘PLACEMAKING’ TO ADDRESS ‘HEALTH INEQUALITY’


The director for Strategic Advisory at Mace argues that to ease pressures on the health service, and ensure greater health equality across society, government, healthcare providers, and the private sector UK-wide, will need to work towards a multi-agency approach to ‘placemaking’.


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