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Bender UK opens new operating theatre showroom
A new purpose-built operating theatre has been completed at Bender UK’s Ulverston headquarters in Cumbria to offer ‘a world-class training and demonstration base’ for customers to experience the company’s technology first-hand.
The ‘theatre showroom’ was formally opened by Bender MD, Gareth Brunton, on 5 November, during a first customer visit by staff from Manchester University Hospitals.
It showcases theatre and clinical equipment offered by Bender as part of its turnkey healthcare solutions for new- build and hospital upgrade programmes, and is connected to a plant room with medical IT power systems, isolated power systems, and uninterruptible power supply, to replicate power for group 2 medical locations, simulating events
Static awarded Grange University Hospital contract
Static Systems Group has been awarded the contract to supply and install nurse call systems and bedhead services trunking at the new £350 million Grange University Hospital in South Wales, designed by architects, BDP.
such as loss of power and shut-down. Equipment displayed includes Merivaara surgical lights and HD cameras (exclusively distributed by Bender UK), and new Bender clinical pendants, Bender touchscreen theatre control panels with 42 in PACS screens, vertical and horizontal aluminium bedhead trunking, an AV and video routing system from Jones AV, and multiple display screens and monitors from Barco.
Medical centre on former town hall site
Eric Wright Health and Care, working in partnership with Wigan Council and Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), has commenced the construction of a new £4 million health centre in Ashton in Makerfield, Wigan, in Greater Manchester, on the site of the former town hall.
The company acquired the site from the Council in 2015, and successfully
secured planning permission in 2017, with Eric Wright Construction appointed as main contractor. On 9 November an official sod-cutting ceremony took place with local representatives from St Oswald’s Primary School, whose students prepared artwork that will decorate the site hoarding. When complete, the 1,100 m2
building
will comprise two GP practices – The Medicentre and the Bryn Street Practice on the first floor, with the ground floor used for community services, including by integrated health and social care teams. There is also a ground floor meeting / community area. Additional features include an ambulance standby point, providing a location where crews can rest between calls, and solar panels.
Big rise in NHS funding confirmed
Confirmation of the extra £20.5 billion more in ‘real-terms’ annual funding for the NHS by 2023-2024 announced last June – including at least £2 billion annually for mental health, and an end to the current PFI model, were among the notable elements impacting on health and social care in Chancellor Philip Hammond’s 2018 Budget Speech delivered on 29 October. The Executive Summary said: ‘In June the government set out an unprecedented multi-year funding plan for the NHS in England. At the time this equated to £20.5 billion more a year in real terms by
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2030-2024, an average real growth rate in the NHS’s budget of 3.4% per year – taking the NHS budget from £114.6 billion in 2018-2019 to £147.8 billion in 2023- 2024. The NHS agreed to come forward with a new long-term plan this year, to be agreed with the government. The cash settlement that the government promised in June 2018 is fully funded at this Budget. The NHS will deliver its plan by the year- end, and the government will confirm the settlement consistent with that plan, and the £20.5 billion real-terms increase by 2023-2024, by Spending Review 2019.”
Static Systems was awarded the contract by Crown House Technologies on behalf of main contractor, Laing O’Rourke. Its Fusion IP Ultima nurse call system and Ventura bedhead services trunking will be installed throughout the 471-bed hospital, with the former fully integrated into the Trust’s LAN infrastructure, ‘delivering cost savings by sharing the infrastructure wiring and equipment, and enabling the client to manage nurse call alongside all its other shared IP services’. Ultima will provide ‘full end- to-end IP to the bed’, and allow interfacing and connectivity to a third-party VoIP telephone system. With offsite construction fully embraced on this project, Static Systems has worked closely with Laing O’Rourke to enable nurse call to be fully installed into the bathroom pods being built. Each pod’s nurse call is commissioned offsite, enabling it to be easily connected into the main system as part of the final installation process. The company will also manufacture and assemble all the bedhead trunking off site at its Staffordshire manufacturing facility. In both instances, it says adopting this approach means product quality can be carefully controlled, products are fully populated ready for installation, and delivery and installation are smoother.
When complete, the hospital will include a 24-hour acute Assessment Unit and Emergency Department, providing complex specialist and critical care treatment for over 600,000 people in south-east Wales.
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