Healthcare Estates
Bringing light to
‘dark spaces’
Planetsaver offers LED flat panels, retrofit lamps, and luminaries, fitted with Planetsaver ‘Dims to Low’ technology, which it says can help user organisations ensure that previously dark areas can remain lit even when people are not using them, ‘while reducing energy costs by up to 90 per cent’. The company said: “Lighting is such
an important part of safety and security. Unlit corridors, car parks, and rooms, can cause anxiety, lead to accidents, and even make areas less safe. However, keeping the lights on costs money, and balancing safety, security, and economics, has historically been difficult. This task is now considerably easier; lighting products incorporating Dims to Low technology work by operating the lamp at full brightness when people are present, but reducing its output when they are not.”
Horne warns on outlet fittings
Designer, developer, and manufacturer, of thermostatic valves for mixing and temperature control applications, Horne Engineering, is warning healthcare estates engineers in the process of removing the outlet fitting (often called a straightener) of their clinical taps in a bid to reduce Pseudomonad contamination risk that ‘this will actually exacerbate the issue of retrograde contamination, while also introducing other problems’. The company said:
“The outlet fitting is a vital component of the Horne Optitherm tap’s design, and performs several critical functions.” They are: The integral flow regulator governs the flow at a constant 6 L/min – ‘optimised for handwashing without splashing’.
The integral flow conditioner ensures water falls from the outlet ‘in a laminar and steady column,’ avoiding splashing, and the creation of aerosols. The ‘lattice’ structure provides surface tension to stop the flow immediately on closure, retain water between actuations, and minimise the area of the air-water boundary. “The spout must not drain down – a process where the released water is replaced with contaminated air/dust/
water vapour from the local environment; in such instances,
potential pathogens are sucked into a perfectly warm, dark, moist environment, with abundant oxygen, every single time the outlet is used.”
Protecting those at risk
An extensive range of ‘standard’ and bespoke anti-ligature products ‘for environments where people may be at risk to themselves or others’, including door and window furniture, lighting, plumbing, washroom products, ventilation grilles, security screws and fixings, and dispensers, is offered by the Anti-Ligature Shop. The company claims to be the
Invoking dementia patients’memories
‘An exciting collection of ground-breaking display products is helping improve the lives of dementia patients in hospitals across the country’ – says Bradford-based New Vision Signs & Graphics, designer and installer of ‘innovative displays which help trigger memories for elderly patients, and improve the hospital environment’. ‘Picture This’ is an interchangeable slide
frame systemthat shows images on corridors and in side wards. Designed to enhance recognition and awareness, it uses pictures ‘to invoke pastmemories’. ‘Kodak-style slide frames’, backlit with
LED lighting, feature interchangeable images, and ‘work particularly well with bygone scenes and nostalgic visions of childhood’, while ‘Memory Boxes’, within which patients place a personal object they can recognise and remember, can be installed by their beds.
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only supplier of specialist anti- ligature products ‘all under one roof’. It said: “Over the past few
years we have worked with, maintained, specified, and supplied, various anti-ligature products for the mental healthcare sector, supporting personnel in the sphere to reduce incidences of self-harm. Our anti-ligature products are ideal for use in psychiatric wards, hospitals, mental health centres, care homes, and prisons, to protect all aspects of a room that might put a person at risk.”
Demonstrating ‘the power of CHP’
ENER-G will demonstrate its new range of combined heat and power (CHP) solutions, ‘especially adapted for the NHS’. The company said: “According to an
NHS SDU report, CHP offers NHS England ‘the most significant impact on operational costs and carbon’. ENER-G Combined Power has a proven track record in delivering energy projects across a variety of NHS Trusts, and to more than 50 hospitals.” These hospitals include Birmingham
Heartlands – where, under a pilot NHS Carbon and Energy Fund scheme, ENER-G designed, built, and installed, a complete Energy Centre (pictured) through the public-private partnership funding mechanism, ‘with guaranteed
savings’. The Centre, operated and maintained by ENER-G, delivers critical power, heating, and cooling. As part of an ‘integrated energy
management approach’, ENER-G also replaced ‘ageing’ lighting throughout the hospital.
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