CONTENTS IHEEM REGULARS 5 COMMENT
5 COVER STORY: UPGRADE AND SAVE – STARTING WITH A FREE ENERGY AUDIT
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
FEATURES
18 PATIENT FLOW INITIATIVE WINS INNOVATION AWARD
HEJ reports on the presentation of the Lord Carter Award for 2018, and the conferring of ‘Highly Commended’ certificates to two ‘runners-up’, at this year’s Hospital Innovations event in London.
24 FM TEAM PLAYS KEY ROLE IN WOMEN’S HOSPITAL DESIGN A look at how the Facility Management Department at Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, played a key role in providing input and expertise for a redevelopment project that is seeing a new Women’s Hospital created in the Canadian city.
27 ARE UK CABLE TESTING SYSTEMS FIT FOR PURPOSE?
In an article first published in Australian magazine, Healthcare Facilities, a mineral insulated cable specialist discusses the potential consequences should the electrical wiring systems that connect vital fire safety systems fail during a fire, and actions to take to minimise the risk.
32 ENSURING A WELL-TRAINED WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE
June’s Hospital Innovations 2018 event saw the year’s second IHEEM roundtable focus on NHS apprenticeships, with a particular emphasis on ongoing work to establish a national engineering apprenticeship for healthcare engineers.
39 AVIATION APPRENTICESHIP AN EXCELLENT GROUNDING HEJ’s editor spoke to former chairman of the IHEEM Publications Committee, Amos Millington, about his engineering career – which began with an apprenticeship at legendary British aviation manufacturer, de Havilland, some of his most memorable experiences, and the people he met along the way.
45 SUBSTANTIAL WATER SAVINGS WITH FEWER BLOCKAGES
The UK and Eire distributor of a Norwegian-developed vacuum drainage technology that reportedly consumes one-sixth to one-eighth the volume of water used during flushing of traditional ‘gravity’ toilets, sets out this and the technology’s other practical and cost-saving benefits.
51 RURAL SETTING MAKES FOR HARMONIOUS SURROUNDINGS
A new 344-bedded hospital opened late last year just outside Dumfries, jointly designed by architectural practices Ryder Architecture and NBBJ, was conceived as a ‘garden hospital’, with a design focused on light and landscape made possible by its rural setting. Wards are surrounded by garden spaces, some of which play an integral part in therapeutic practice.
54 BETTER BED AND MATTRESS MANAGEMENT ACHIEVED With growing demand for healthcare services, and acutely limited resources, tracking the location of hospital beds and mattresses with RFID can see significant efficiency gains and improvements in patient safety. So says the RFID product manager for Healthcare at RFiD Discovery, who provides an overview of the available technologies.
59 TRIO OF ‘EXPERTS’ FOCUSES ON KEY SAFETY ISSUES
Eastwood Park Training employs ‘healthcare experts’ to contribute to the training delivered at its South Gloucestershire training centre. Here, with the focus on water safety, three of its water trainers offer different perspectives on the topic and the issues facing estates teams.
69 BLUETOOTH MESH SIMPLIFIES EQUIPMENT LOCATION
A manufacturer of ‘energy-efficient’ lighting sub-systems for lighting manufacturers and distributors worldwide explores the capabilities of Bluetooth Mesh in faster location of key equipment in hospitals, and explains how the technology can be embedded into its LED drivers.
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