Healthcare Estates Don’t fall behind on MRI safety
UK-headquarteredMetrasens says its latest advance inMRI safety – ‘the world’s first ferromagnetic detection systems’ (FMDs) – ‘effectively combinemaximumMRI safety with optimal workflow efficiency’. The company said: “MRI is an extremely
valuable, safe, medical imaging modality. Great care is needed, however, to protect patients, staff, and the hospital’s imaging technology investment, because the MRI field is always on. Ferromagnetic items inadvertently taken into the MRI room can become projectiles, pulled at up to 40 mph into the magnet, and putting at risk anyone, or anything, in their path. Although every MRI facility has processes to reduce the risks, unfortunately the number of projectile incidents and near- misses continues to increase.”
Help with funding for schemes
Metrasens’s Ferroguard Assure safety
system detects risk items ‘well before they reach the MRI doorway’, while Ferroguard Screener ‘detects the smallest ferrous items’ (e.g. hair-pins) on patients, ‘reducing image artefacts, time-wasting rescans, and resulting reductions in efficiency’.
‘Dramatically reduced’ power bills
First-time attendee, Turner Engine Powered Services (Turner EPS), official UK distributor for Capstone, will exhibit a Capstone C30 (30 kWe) microturbine on its stand. The company explained: “Capstone
Turbine Corporation is the world’s leading producer of low-emission microturbine systems, and was first to market with commercially viable air bearing turbine technology. These award-winning systems have logged millions of documented runtime operating hours.” Among the key benefits of Capstone
microturbines are: ‘Extremely low’ downtime – with average uptime of ‘98-99 per cent’.
Capstone turbines have just one moving part – the turbine generator shaft bearing (an air bearing, requiring no oil or maintenance).
Only six hours of planned maintenance annually.
‘Very low’ emissions – ‘less than 10% of those from an internal combustion engine’.
Turner EPS added: “In hospital applications, an on-site, Capstone- powered CHP systemis farmore fuel- efficient and environmentally beneficial than utility power and boiler heating, and can dramatically cutmonthly power bills.”
Pride in innovation
Zip claims to have ‘invented’ instant boiling water in the 1980s, and says it ‘maintains world leadership’ in boiling water provision for hot drinks in the workplace. The company says its strong position
has been earned ‘via continual product development’. Zip Industries chairman, Michael Crouch AO, said recently: “We get such a great kick out of innovating; we are always thinking what can we do, and how can we do it better.” One outcome is the introduction of
energy-saving products that Zip says reduce the operating costs of instant
boiling water systems by ‘more than fifty per cent over earlier models’. Another is ‘the introduction of healthier inbuilt water filtration 25 times finer than that of the past, filtering out chemical tastes and odours as never before to provide crystal-clear, better-tasting water, boiling, or chilled’. Zip will demonstrate its ‘highly energy-
efficient’ Hydroboil Plus boiling, and new HydroTap, boiling, chilled, and sparkling, filtered water systems, and Zip Inline – ‘an energy-efficient solution to providing handwash facilities, without the dangers of potential scalding or Legionella’.
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Established in July 2011, The Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF), together with strategic partners from the Department of Health, NHS Scotland, and NHS SBS, was set up to assist NHS Trusts to deliver CHP-type projects, together with wider estate energy efficiencies and renewable measures. Over the past two years, it has
delivered two tranches of energy infrastructure projects valued at £75 million. These completed projects are saving NHS Trusts £16 m, and 80,000 tonnes of carbon emissions per annum, respectively. CEF is currently in the process of delivering a third tranche of projects, valued at £30 m. CEF provides NHS Trusts with the
technical expertise to: ‘Transfer risk to whoever can best manage it’, principally private sector organisations.
Enable NHS organisations to realise the benefits of large-scale procurement.
Make competitive and task-specific funding (15-30 year energy infrastructure finance) available to the NHS.
Provide a fast, robust, procurement route for the NHS, reducing overall risk and costs.
Provide the NHS with the necessary task-specific technical, legal, and project management resources, and ongoing support for projects.
‘Prove and audit’ savings annually for the whole contract period, with reimbursement for savings not achieved.
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