CONTENTS IHEEM REGULARS 5 COMMENT
5 COVER STORY: STAINLESS STEEL – A SUSTAINABLE AND HYGIENIC SOLUTION
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
FEATURES 10 CARDIFF DINNER MARKED TWO NOTABLE EVENTS
A celebratory dinner in Cardiff marked both IHEEM’s 75th anniversary, and the 70th ‘birthday’ of the NHS.
21 EXPERT SPEAKERS FOCUS ON TODAY’S CHALLENGES
An IHEEM Regional Conference and Exhibition in Cardiff took place almost 75 years to the day after IHEEM was founded.
30 FOCUS ON COMPETENCE IN FIRE SAFETY
A look at the work of the recently formed IHEEM Fire Safety Technical Platform.
37 HISTORIC DRAMATISATION WILL OPEN CONFERENCE
Healthcare Estates 2018 will open this month with a dramatisation marking 70 years of the NHS.
45 COULD IT BE ‘CURTAINS’ FOR COOLING TOWERS? Adiabatic cooling specialist, Transtherm Cooling Industries, discusses the shift towards dry/wet evaporative cooling methods.
51 SIMPLER PATIENT JOURNEYS AT OHIO FACILITY
Simplified patient journeys and integrated treatment pathways feature at the Taussig Cancer Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
55 GLASGOW EVENT ON MEDICAL DEVICE SAFETY
A variety of topics related to medical device safety were discussed at a recent event in Glasgow.
60 PP RECYCLING UNIT PROVING ITS VALUE
The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust now has reportedly England’s first polypropylene recycling unit in the healthcare sector.
63 GETTING CLEANROOM DESIGN RIGHT FIRST TIME
The financial and operational risks associated with the effective design of hospital cleanrooms and aseptic facilities.
68 LOWERING PATIENT RISK OF SEPSIS
Howorth Air Technology explains how using automated biocide generators and air purification in combination can significantly reduce sepsis risk.
73 CAN THE ACUTE SECTOR LEARN FROM CARE HOMES? How hospitals can learn from the care home sector’s ability to adapt more quickly with the deployment of nurse call technology.
78 RO SYSTEM FOR ENDOSCOPY DECONTAMINATION
Veolia Water Technologies’ OSIRIS RO technology has been used in an upgrade of the endoscopy decontamination facilities at Warwick Hospital.
81 MODULAR KITCHENS CAN ‘TRANSFORM’ CATERING
A modular kitchen infrastructure specialist explains how such facilities can ‘transform catering options’ for many hospitals.
87 CREATING A SAFE, SECURE CL3 LABORATORY
A focus on the importance of specialist design and build in creating a ‘safe and secure’ CL3 containment laboratory.
92 PROTECTING PLANT ROOMS AGAINST LEAKS
The importance of waterproofing plant rooms to contain any leaks or spillages from faulty tanks, plant, or pipework.
96 CLEANING SHOWER HOSES MORE EFFECTIVELY
A look at ‘growing evidence’ that cleaning shower hoses using a ‘traditional hand and bucket approach’ will not eliminate harmful waterborne bacteria.
99 LEWISHAM HOSPITAL ROOF’S CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH
The challenges entailed in renovating the roof of a busy London hospital.
103 FASTER DETECTION OF P. AERUGINOSA The recent successful adoption of IDEXX’s Pseudalert rapid microbiology system by an Oxford Trust.
107 ARGUING THE CASE FOR TMVS IN HEALTHCARE The case for the use of TMVs in healthcare environments.
111 TURNKEY EXPERTISE FOR STRESS-FREE PROJECTS An ‘all-encompassing approach to project consultancy and equipment supply within theatre environments’, described.
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