Health Sector News
Eastwood Park will use ‘sensitive’ protein detection test in training
Synoptics Health Division has announced that Eastwood Park is to use its ProReveal test to detect proteins on surgical instruments, to complement training of sterile services professionals on how to assess the validity of decontamination processes. The ‘highly sensitive’ ProReveal in situ
fluorescence test, which can detect ‘nanogram levels’ of protein, will be used on decontamination courses to train several hundred personnel annually from UK and international decontamination
validation service providers and sterile services departments (SSDs). Synoptics said: “On the courses, they
will use the technology to optimise their appreciation of cleaning efficacy within decontamination processes by detecting where, and how much, protein is on surgical instruments post-cleaning.” Bruce Garbutt, training consultant at
Eastwood Park, explained: “Protein decontamination currently represents the ultimate challenge in cleaning efficacy. If your process has removed protein, you
PHS Datashred on acquisition trail
PHS Datashred, the confidential data destruction division of the £422 million PHS Group, has continued its national expansion by purchasing Bettershred, a ‘10-year old’, £250,000 turnover, Milton Keynes-based mobile document shredding business, with over 900 clients. In January PHS Datashred acquired
Exeter-based Phoenix Shredding, expanding its geographical reach in the SouthWest, and now has 15 destruction centres nationally. Anthony Pearlgood, MD, PHS
Datashred, said: “For our 50th anniversary year our aim is to cover more of the national shredding market. This acquisition means that, in the past few weeks, we have further established ourselves as one of the UK’s largest shredding companies.
“We’re always looking at opportunities
to expand, and Bettershred fitted perfectly with our organic growth strategy.We will offer our new and existing customers in Milton Keynes improved service levels, enhanced security standards, and a more flexible range of services – including on and off- site shredding and IT recycling.” Each year, identity fraud in the UK
costs more than £2.7 bn, affecting over 1.8 million people, recent National Fraud Authority (NFA) data reveals.
Strength, security, and style
Sunray Engineering’s ExcluLouvre is a LPCB security- rated stackable louvre system that has just received full SR3 security accreditation to LPS 1175 issue 7. Developed to harmonise with
Sunray’s existing ‘stackable’ and ‘hinged louvre door systems’, it combines a high aesthetic quality with important security features, and is designed for easy installation, being suitable for any size of square structural opening up to 5 m high. The modular sections, each up to 2.5 m wide, can also be fixed together to provide ‘an infinite width’. Combining the strength of a fully welded solution, and ‘a unique interlocking
anchor system’, the ExcluLouvre has virtually no visible horizontal joins, and provides up to 42% free air flow, subject to blanking requirements. Additional features include an anti- vermin mesh at the rear, a front face-fixed top panel, and optional flange detail. A matching ExcluLouvre
Door, specifiable in single and double door formats, provides a maximum opening of up to 2.4 x 2.4 m, and is constructed from the same blade profiles as the ExcluLouvre. Key additional features include three-point locking and hooked security dog bolts, and a padlockable hasp and staple to the front face.
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know your surgical instruments can be made safe to re-use. Pre-1999 we did not fully appreciate that it is possible to infect patients with prion diseases like vCJD should our cleaning processes not be optimal. More recently, we have begun to realise how swab tests to detect protein levels can be flawed; hence the imperative for an ‘in situ’ test like ProReveal.”
£1.6 million REI work complete
A ‘transition’ of ophthalmology services from Plymouth’s Royal Eye Infirmary (REI), Mutley, to Derriford Hospital, is now complete, following the reconfiguration and refurbishment of the Avon and Carey wards at Derriford Hospital. Ophthalmology services were
previously provided and managed from the Royal Eye Infirmary, a building that was over 100 years old. The new HLM-designed project provides 16,145 ft2
of modern space for the Ophthalmic
Outpatient and Diagnostic service. A new, ‘clearly defined and
welcoming’ entrance at Derriford Hospital caters for patients arriving from within the facility, and incorporates new signage easily understood by all, ‘especially the visually impaired’. A discreet waiting area for children, and consult/examination and diagnostics services, now all share a common reception area – ‘helping create a quiet and relaxed atmosphere, despite the large number of people and movements within the department’. The new design also aims to enhance
the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate specialist teaching and training in the clinical rooms, ‘while maintaining the REI identity and reputation within Derriford Hospital’.
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