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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Advanced paediatric surgery facility completed
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and BAM Construction have completed a new children’s cardiac hybrid theatre and intra-operative MRI facility at Leeds Children’s Hospital on the Leeds General Infirmary site, creating a new dedicated environment for paediatric cardiac surgery and paediatric neurosurgery. Extending the fourth floor of the hospital’s Clarendon Wing, and built on eight raking columns up to 17 m long, the new theatre complex will improve the care provided to young patients with complex congenital heart disease, and those undergoing neurosurgery. The cardiac hybrid theatre allows cardiac surgeons and cardiologists to perform surgery simultaneously, meaning that the skills of both specialists can be employed together, reducing treatment time. The GE 3-Tesla high field intra-operative MRI scanner – the UK’s first – allows scans to be undertaken during neurosurgery. Working with the surgeons and clinical/ project teams at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Starkstrom supplied and fitted KLS Martin V16/10 Lights with HD camera capability and its S300 pendants
a great in-light camera that aids teaching and training. The pendants are smooth and easy to operate, and the control panel clear and easy to navigate. The touchscreen layout is intuitive and works well. We have been impressed by the quality and professionalism of the Starkstrom products and staff.” The combination of the GE 3-Tesla high field iMRI, Brainlab Buzz Navigation, and KLS operating lights and arms, represents a first in the UK.
and theatre control panels. It says its equipment ‘integrates seamlessly’ with the Brainlab Buzz ‘neuro-navigation’ system installed in the new facility, the UK’s first clinical such system. John Goodden, consultant neurosurgeon (Adult & Paediatric), Leeds General Infirmary, and clinical lead for Paediatric Neurosciences, Leeds Children’s Hospital, said: “The installation of new theatre lights, a control panel, and two new pendants, has been straightforward. The lights are very good quality, with excellent illumination of the operative field, and flexibility to adapt the beam to our needs. They also incorporate
Endoscopy capacity boosted at StJohn’s A UK medical technology company is
helping a Lothian hospital increase its capacity for endoscopy examinations and reduce waiting times. Vanguard Healthcare Solutions is working alongside NHS Lothian at St John’s Hospital in Livingston, where it is providing a mobile endoscopy suite to increase capacity for examinations including gastric, bowel, and chest procedures. Designed and built by Vanguard, the suite includes a reception, waiting area, consulting room, admission/discharge area, procedure
Helen Rucklidge, the Trust’s Project Team Corporate Planning manager, added: “The Intraoperative MRI and Hybrid Cardiac Theatre Project Team have been very impressed with the professionalism of Starkstrom throughout. Starkstrom was positively engaged in the project’s early stages, and has regularly consulted with us and other manufacturers to ensure compatibility and full integration, and make sure that its engineers were available to meet not only the overall programme, but also that of building trades and other specialist equipment manufacturers with whom its equipment had to integrate.”
room, recovery ward, toilets and changing room, refreshment area, utility areas, clean processing room, one-way flow for scopes, pass-through endoscope washer/ disinfector, dedicated decontamination area, and an ultraviolet light endoscope storage cabinet. The suite has HEPA filtered environmental air, which conforms to Grade C EUGMP standards. In use since late last year, the mobile endoscopy suite is expected to be on site for up to two years. Vanguard is also providing clinical support staff to work alongside the hospital’s own endoscopy
clinicians. Vanguard senior account manager, Simon Squirrell, explained: “The unit will help NHS Lothian see hundreds of patients more quickly, with up to 10 appointments a day scheduled. The feedback we’ve had, both from clinicians working on the unit, and from patients, has been extremely positive.”
Key risk assessment consultancy appointment Clearwater Technology, the nationwide
provider of water, air, and hygiene management, has appointed Paul Wilson as head of SafeCare, its dedicated risk assessment consultancy division. He has spent over 14 years with Clearwater in sales and general manager roles. Karl Wharton, Clearwater’s MD, said: “Paul has been a fantastic asset to Clearwater across a great many years. He’s gone from strength to strength in many different roles, and SafeCare will be in great hands under his
management. Risk management is as important as it’s ever been. With Legionella cases on the rise, the requirement for safe living and working environments growing exponentially, and compliance getting tougher, effective risk management is essential to ensuring safe, reliable performance from domestic and commercial water systems.” SafeCare provides assessments and remedial actions to ensure protection
against Legionella, air, and fire risks. The division also offers kitchen extract assessments, independent auditing, City & Guilds training, and compliance management. With 40 highly experienced risk assessment consultants across the UK, it offers free, ‘no-obligation’ quotes for risk assessment, and fast-response nationwide coverage ‘within a maximum of two hours’.
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