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Manchester on stand D8) designed its SteroPOD modular sanitary airlock for healthcare in collaboration with healthcare professionals to provide an isolation barrier between a patient bedroom and the main ward area. The patent-pending design, ‘with a unique two-door entry/exit’, reportedly prevents cross-contamination and spread of infection back onto the ward.
n Gilling Dod, (stand D10 at Healthcare Estates 2020) has ‘joined with its peers’ in creating the Estates & Procurement Help COVID-19 response document, which lists a group of ‘like-minded’ consultants and contractors specialising in healthcare, who have put aside their usual roles as competitors, to come together to assist Trusts quickly and efficiently.
n Single-source construction and engineering specialist, MTX Contracts (stand C68), is helping with the modular construction programme, ‘providing fast-track, high quality, healthcare facilities’.
n Medical gas alarm manufacturer, Shire Controls (stand A1), has supplied many of the new Nightingale hospitals with medical gas alarms. Director, Cliff Caswell, said: “I am proud of the immense effort that the staff of Shire Controls have given in support of the Nightingale Hospitals; they have worked tirelessly throughout this period, including over the Easter Holiday, as I am sure many companies have. Well done to the British medical industry.”
n Intastop (stand E28 at Healthcare Estates 2020) – with its antibacterial door and wall protection products, manufactured with an additive said to prevent the growth of ‘up to 99.9% of harmful microbes’.
n Brandon Medical (stand B1) sourced ventilators from British company, Meditech, for the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West, and supplied examination lights suitable for tracheotomy to the NHS Louisa Jordan temporary emergency hospital in Glasgow. It has also offered advice to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds University on increasing the distribution of oxygen and medical air, and is manufacturing parts for the UK
The NHS Nightingale Birmingham Hospital was built by Interserve, initially to accommodate up to 800 beds, but with the capacity to increase this to 4,000.
ventilator programme – including for the new Mercedes-UCL CPAP ventilator and existing British-made machines.
n Wandsworth Healthcare’s wireless nurse call system, Connected Care, has proven a popular choice during the pandemic, ‘supporting the need for rapid ward creation in unusual environments.’ Working with NG Bailey for the North West Nightingale in Manchester, and with Integral for the UWE Nightingale in Bristol, Wandsworth supplied the Connected Care system to support over 1,000 beds in these hospitals alone. All units for both hospitals were programmed, supplied, and installed, within one week of enquiry.
n Eastwood Park (stand B22) is currently assisting with advice, training, and planning, having developed resources for medical equipment at the NHS Nightingale Hospitals and emergency training for PHE.
n Dräger Medical (stand D54) says it has substantially expanded its production capacities to meet ‘a significant rise’ in global demand for PPE, and especially FFP masks, half masks, particle filters, safety glasses, and protective suits. Its Medical Technology division is currently producing ‘almost twice as many ventilators as before’, and ‘working flat out’ to expand its production capacity even further.
n DDC Dolphin (stand E56), which manufactures and supplies sluice room equipment including medical pulp macerators, bedpan washer- disinfectors, incontinence product macerators, air purifiers, medical pulp consumables, and maceratable / flushable wipes, has supplied 16 machines to the Nightingale Hospital Cardiff critical care temporary field hospital at the Principality Stadium. Many other key product, services, and technology suppliers – too numerous to mention here – have supplied the new emergency hospitals, and assisted, using their own expertise, with the overall UK effort.
The Scottish Event Campus Centre (SECC) in Glasgow is the home of the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital.
10 Health Estate Journal May 2020
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STUDENT AFFILIATE Thomas Barnes
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