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Jersey – has seen many organisations mobilised to provide the wide range of equipment, infrastructure, and extra beds needed to address the additional clinical demand caused by the pandemic.
Broad-ranging involvement “As the organisers of Healthcare Estates 2020, Step Exhibitions and IHEEM have been publishing a fortnightly newsletter highlighting the contribution of the many companies helping in the battle against the coronavirus. Quite a number of those involved will be exhibiting within this year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition, which will take place alongside the annual IHEEM conference and the Institute’s 2020 Awards Dinner.”
Among the many suppliers, contractors, and organisations to have contributed expertise, technology, products, and services, during the coronavirus crisis, including to the various temporary
emergency hospitals, are: n Arjo UK, set to exhibit on stand F51 at Healthcare Estates, is one of a number of furniture suppliers to the new emergency hospitals, having, it says, deployed hundreds of its patient beds to them over recent days.
n The new hospitals are being procured through the Department of Health & Social Care’s ProCure22 framework, which is represented every year at Healthcare Estates, and will this year be present on stand F38. The P22 framework has been extended for up to a year to support the NHS through the COVID-19 pandemic.
n In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting increase in demand for its nurse call systems, healthcare communications and bedhead services specialist, Static Systems Group (SSG) (stand D32 at Healthcare Esates 2020), has boosted production capacity at its manufacturing base near
Wolverhampton, and invested in the rapid development of an off-the- shelf ‘wired’ nurse call solution,
The conversion of part of the Harrogate Convention Centre, by BAM Construction, entailed creating a level three critical care field hospital able to accommodate up to 500 patients.
Ultima Lite, to sit alongside existing product ranges, as a direct response to help support Trusts quickly expanding their care facilities to treat COVID-19 patients. Its operations and
manufacturing processes have been 'completely overhauled and optimised', and SSG has opened up additional manufacturing space to accommodate an extra production line for its wireless nurse call solution, which has seen a ten-fold increase in demand. The company has also adapted its working patterns, introducing extra shifts at its factory so that it can operate seven days a week. These changes are enabling it to work with many hospitals ‘to meet what would ordinarily seem like impossible delivery timescales’. The COVID-19 pandemic has already seen SSG’s expertise brought in to assist on over 30 projects.
n ISS Healthcare will provide all cleaning, portering, waste management, linen, pest control, helpdesk, and other ‘soft FM’ services at the ExCeL London hospital.
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May 2020 Health Estate Journal 9
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