INSTITUTE NEWS Apprentices interact at Riverside seminar
An IHEEM North-East Branch seminar held on 7 November at the Emirates Riverside cricket ground in Chester-le-Street, sponsored by Clugston Services and Bender UK, focused on electrical safety, and covered topics including: n The BS 7671 IET Wiring Regulations – Section 710 - Medical Locations.
n UPS systems – UPS philosophies; Centralised and distributed UPS configurations (Resilience and Redundancy).
n Medical IT Systems. n Earthing – Group 1 and Group 2 locations – MRI considerations.
The seminar was organised by Clugston Services Bids and Solutions Manager, Ronnie Kewley MIHEEM, and IHEEM North-East Branch Chair, Ken Holmes MSc, BENg, CEng, BSc, MIHEEM,, and Vice-Chair, Alan Spraggon CEng, MCIBSE, MIHEEM. CPD presentations were given by Matthew Mears, National Healthcare Consultant at Bender UK.
Over 40 healthcare engineering personnel from a wide range of professional backgrounds attended. The Branch says it received excellent feedback following the event, which provided ‘a great chance to network with Heads of Estates, Engineers, their Architects, Project Managers, Authorising Engineers, medical device suppliers, and Apprentices’.
Alan Spraggon said: “Wayne Carr, Ken Holmes, and I – on behalf of the Branch committee – would like to thank all members (and non-members) for their continuing support, and for attending. IHEEM is always
looking for ways to expand the membership, so it was great to see so many people from different healthcare backgrounds, and from within the north-east of England, attend. Thanks to Clugston for their sponsorship, and to Matthew Mears, for delivering several very informative CPD sessions on Uninterruptable Power Supplies and Medical IT systems. Equally, ‘thank you’ to the Northern and Yorkshire NHS Assessment Centre for sending so many of its apprentices; it was great to be able to meet some aspiring engineers, and to see them interact on the topics on the day.”
‘Smart working’ in focus at West Midlands branch event
Around 30 professionals representing a cross-section of estates personnel and healthcare suppliers attended the IHEEM West Midlands Branch’s latest meeting, hosted by Static Systems Group at its Design & Innovation Centre in Wombourne near Wolverhampton, in late November. The CPD-certified event featured two presentations, with attendees encouraged to share views and experiences. The first presentation, held in the facility’s ‘Repeatable Rooms’ four- bed bay, focused on ‘smart’ hospitals, and the latest applications to help keep patients safe and empower care teams, while the second, held in Static Systems’ Innovation Ward, explored the impact that ward design can have on patient wellbeing and recovery. A common thread was ‘the real benefits to be achieved through collaborative working’. Static Systems said: “Developments in technology are enabling hospitals to become ‘smarter’ than ever before. As part of this, we are witnessing significant changes in the ways that staff engage with colleagues and patients, in the delivery of mission-critical support for healthcare applications, in the importance of information technology in improving patient wellbeing, safety, and experience, and in the ways that system providers are supporting healthcare engineering teams.”
Static Systems Product Manager, Matt Wakelam, outlined the benefits of the latest nurse call and healthcare communication solutions being used by
12 Health Estate Journal January 2020
Trusts and other healthcare providers ‘to establish patient-centred healthcare environments and universal digital healthcare platforms’. Solutions discussed and demonstrated included medical devices and sensor technologies, VoIP telephony, smart devices, RTLS systems, EPR/EMR, CCTV, and access control – all of which Static Systems says ‘work seamlessly with nurse call, and can easily integrate into a hospital’s IP infrastructure’. Matt Clutton, another Static Systems Product Manager, explained that the company’s focus has shifted from purely
equipment, to the design of the actual ward space. Working with interior design specialists, Grosvenor Interiors, the company has changed its approach both to the Innovation Ward’s refurbishment, and to the design of its latest bedhead services trunking product. Both ‘are examples of how integrated design can enhance the patient room to improve wellbeing and assist speedy recovery’.
Static Systems Marketing Manager, Jennie Terry, said: “As an IHEEM Company Affiliate, we are always pleased to welcome members and colleagues to our Design & Innovation Centre. Events like this offer positive benefits for members, including CPD and networking opportunities. The informality encourages a free flow of questions and feedback, while as a systems provider, the discussions help us develop future solutions.”
The Innovation Ward – ‘integrated design can enhance the patient room in order to improve wellbeing and assist recovery’.
Static Systems welcomes visitors to its Design & Innovation Centre – available both for meetings, and for use by the wider industry ‘to test, trial, and develop conceptual ideas and new solutions’.
©Bender UK
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76
