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4 Medical IT Alliance partners with Fulbourn Medical


The 4 Medical IT Alliance has appointed Fulbourn Medical as the official supplier of its integrated operating room and video imaging, workflow management, and surgical display systems to hospitals in the UK and Ireland.


The Alliance – ‘an elite group of leading medical technology manufacturers with a focus on disruptive innovation’ – and Fulbourn Medical say hospitals will now benefit from ‘a much improved, affordable, and sustainable workflow system, to improve patient care and operational safety and drive efficiencies’. Fulbourn Medical’s 25 years’ experience installing and maintaining integrated operating room architectural systems reportedly makes it ‘the ideal partner to complement its solutions with the supply, installation, and maintenance of the 4 Medical IT integrated operating room system to offer a one-stop-shop for turnkey new-build projects, refurbishments, or upgrades’.


4 Medical IT says it gives healthcare providers ‘a new way’ to share data, images, and knowledge, to improve patient care, ‘with a fresh look at workflow management and data enrichment’. Its system is vendor-neutral, deploys open


Body raises alarms over COVID-19’s impact on SMEs


standard IT network protocols, and is ‘guaranteed to work with all surgical imaging sources – from endoscopes to robots, C-arms, ultrasound, and PACs viewers’.


Colin Dobbyne, 4 Medical IT’s MD, said: “We are excited to be working with Fulbourn Medical to offer surgical teams in the UK and Ireland our revolutionary operating room workspace – lossless video distribution up to 4K, DICOM/PACS image capture, seminar room video links, peer-to-peer video consultation, and workflow efficiency gains from a data- rich OR control system, all fully integrated into an ergonomic solution.” The 4 Medical IT Alliance comprises NETGEAR, ZeeVee, NDS Surgical Imaging, Big Blue Solutions, and the SDVoE Alliance.


On-site ‘low-cost’ solar PV for Wirral Health Centre to bring Trust savings


Mypower has designed and installed a 306-panel solar photovoltaic (PV) system for the roof of St. Catherine’s Health Centre in the Wirral, expected to afford operator, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a saving and income of £8,400 in the first year. Over 25 years the commercial benefit is expected to be some £400,000, ‘when likely rises in grid-supplied energy costs are factored in’. Today, Mypower says, solar PV is providing St Catherine’s with the equivalent of electricity purchased at 5.93 p per unit, a rate that includes an Operations and Maintenance allowance. Neil Stott, Business Development director, Mypower, explained: “Compare this to the current Grid purchase price of 13.69 p per unit, and the solar PV delivers local electricity at a 57% saving per unit generated, before any future grid supplied price rises are considered.” He added: “The system will provide approximately 40% of the health centre’s electricity needs annually. Not all the solar-generated electricity will be used on site, as at times production


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The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group – representing the largest value sector in UK construction – has expressed ‘major concerns’ over the impact of COVID-19 on SMEs. These relate to ‘sharp practices’, disruption to repair and maintenance contracts, and ‘the weak balance sheets of the large tier 1 contractors, with implications for payment security along the supply chain’.


The SEC Group says ‘some evidence is emerging of supply chains being informed they will have to bear the risk of any disruption or delay caused to construction works as a result of COVID- 19’. The Group says this is ‘generally facilitated by onerous contracts – par for the course in construction’. There is ‘increasing disruption’ to repair and maintenance contracts, and especially those involving planned maintenance to mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and lift installations. The SEC Group explained: “Many contracts have 'termination at will' clauses, which often enable contracts to be terminated without compensation. Moreover, there are safety implications. Lifts, for example, require regular servicing to comply with statutory safety requirements.”


While public sector clients are being urged to quickly discharge all their payment obligations to their tier 1 contractors, ‘there is concern this will not be followed through along the supply chain’.


will outstrip demand, and the excess will be exported and sold to the grid. As and when battery costs become commercially compelling, it may well become possible for the system to provide nearly 70% of the health centre’s electricity needs, and a level of emergency back-up power to support its more traditional generators. “St. Catherine’s first year return on capital invested is predicted to be 10%, with a payback time of under 10 years. We use proven software to calculate future electricity generation month-by- month. Over 12 months our systems typically outperform against our predictions.”


SEC Group chairman, Trevor Hursthouse, urged all clients of the UK’s construction industry ‘to look out for distressed firms in their supply chains, and to ensure that, as far as possible, measures are put in place to alleviate such distress’. He added: “We need to ensure the industry still has the capacity and resources to deliver the construction and infrastructure needs required when some level of normality returns.”


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