SPONSORED BY HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Showering independence
Horne’s best-selling CARE shower panel, in use widely across the NHS estate, extra- care, and dementia care settings, now offers ‘enhanced inclusive design’, promoting further independence for its users.
The company explained: “Completely redesigned, the integrated riser/grab bar now offers improved features for the user. The robust but
lightweight bar, with anodised aluminium core, offers a solid grab point for unsteady users, and is available in standard white or luminous orange – to assist those with age or neurological disease-related sight impairments.” The design and operation of the riser carriage, which lifts or lowers the shower
Interactive, online decontamination training
AVM Services, a commercially independent division within the Estates and Facilities department of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, says training of sterile services staff, decontamination engineers, and managers, has been ‘a fundamental service strand’ for it for many years, and it now offers 26 individual courses covering a range of decontamination equipment types and manufacturers. Reaching as many decontamination units and similar departments as possible to improve service standards and ongoing quality has been a key AVM ‘mission’ for over two decades, and at Healthcare Estates 2019 it will showcase its new interactive training modules, designed to enable decontamination
fundamentals to be shared, used, and certified online, to a wider audience. Until now its training has been provided either on-site at client decontamination units, or from MMM Medical Equipment UK’s Leeds training facility.
It said: “The 2019 exhibition will be the first opportunity for interested parties outside the partner programme to view and engage with the prototype course modules. These will include modules covering ‘What is Sterility?’, ‘Managing Infection – Washing Hands’, and ‘Introduction to Decontamination’.”
Non-combustible spandrel panels
Architectural facade specialist, Metalline, has introduced a new non-combustible A1-rated spandrel panel designed to fit into most curtain walling, structural glazing, and unitised systems, which it says ‘allows architects and designers to specify with confidence a tested panel’. Constructed from an A1 non- combustible material, the panels have been independently tested at Efectis, where they achieved a ‘60/60’ rating. Metalline’s range of Ultima spandrel panels are produced in a wide variety of
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colours and finishes. These include a full range of anodised colours, as well as specialist polyester powder-coated finishes that, for example, mimic Portland stone and Corten (weathered steel).
Metalline added: “These highly versatile panels can be adapted for a wide range of buildings, are produced from environmentally friendly and sustainable materials, and can help a building conform to the highest level of BREEAM certification. Acoustic and
handset, is ‘greatly improved’; a black spring lever releases the grip, and the user – including those with impaired hand mobility – can then slide the holder effortlessly to their preferred showering height. The attached ‘Mech Extender’ enables wheelchair or shorter users to lower a high-set shower handset to a manageable level.
Horne added: “The previous
2-3 useable rotational sprayhead positions are also vastly improved; head position is now infinitely variable, and easily adjusted with just a closed fist.
“Without the carriage mechanism, the bar can also be wall-mounted vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, for a lightweight, yet supportive, grab bar.”
Developed by University of Birmingham researchers, patented by University of Birmingham Enterprise, and to be commercialised by a new company, NitroPep, the coating is also called NitroPep. Working with the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and the Royal Navy, the researchers conducted a trial which saw NitroPep coated on steel surfaces – including door handles, an operating theatre, and part of a communal toilet – on board a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship. Both the surfaces coated in NitroPep, and ‘control’ surfaces not treated, were subject to standard daily cleaning regimes while the ship was at sea for 11 months. The surfaces were swabbed weekly, and the results analysed at the University of Birmingham showed the coating was effective against five different bacteria responsible for hospital-acquired infections – Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Enterococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli. The coating killed bacteria within 45 minutes.
Coating for steel’s anti-bacterial properties proven
University of Birmingham scientists say they have created an antimicrobial coating for steel surfaces which has proven to rapidly kill bacteria that cause some of the most common hospital- acquired infections.
thermal performance can all be enhanced using a variety of cores tested at both sound and UKAS- approved laboratories.”
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