Healthcare Estates
Energy savings in the washroom
Cistermiser will again show its wide range of washroom control solutions, including water-saving systems featuring the latest infrared control technology. Sensazone, for example, is an
intelligent IR sensor-operated system designed to control water supply and light and fan functions in washrooms. Fulfilling the automatic sanitary water supply shut-off requirement in BREEAM Wat 4, the system operates via a PIR sensor, which triggers a solenoid valve to open at the water supply entry point, and ensures the valve is closed during periods of no occupation. All light fittings are controlled to react
to daylight, with a sensor ensuring activation only when natural lighting levels are insufficient. Extractor fan operation can also be configured; users can either control the fan run-on-time, or use the fan unit’s own timer facility.
Nurse call ‘from source to destination’
TheWandsworth Group will showcase its complete range of IPiN IP-based nurse call systems. IPiN system is a fully
IP-based nurse call system ‘from source to destination’, based on TCP/IP technology, enabling ‘easy integration with other systems’, including DECT telephones, and pagers. Fully HTM-compliant, it reportedly
offers the flexibility to adapt to hospitals’ changing needs. The full-colour nurses’ station touchscreen display provides real- time, prioritised nurse call information, while data logging can be used to track call patterns, and is accessible remotely via a secure connection.
Wandsworth has developed
the systemwith ‘IPiN Everywhere’, a staff/patient tracking systemthat utilises the IPiN IP infrastructure to extend functionality fromthe bedhead to anywhere in the hospital grounds, ‘thanks to unique user ID badges or tags’. Combining IR, RF, and low frequency signals, IPiN Everywhere
enablesmedical staff to activate either a ‘panic’, or an ‘emergency call’ button, so they can be quickly located. Vulnerable patients,meanwhile, can carry their nurse call button when they go to the bathroom, day room, or for treatment, and staff can then identify both the badge/tag, and the location, in real time.
‘Unique’ mental health windows
Two new Taurus Max healthcare windows – a Horizontal Slider, and an Automated Opening Window – designed specifically for mental healthcare applications, will be shown by ATB Secure. The company says of the
Hand hygiene for purchase or hire
TEAL Patents is working ‘in partnership’ with healthcare estates managers ‘to deliver tangible hand hygiene solutions for a variety of problems’. Available to purchase or hire, TEAL’s
medical range includes the Hygienius Prowash, and its latest system – the TEAL Stop n’Wash. A mobile handwash unit easily locateable to areas most at risk, the TEAL Stop n’Wash is designed to help prevent and contain outbreaks from healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) such as norovirus, C. difficile, and MRSA. “The Stop n’Wash is the hand wash
unit if you are looking to contain infections, but our range is diverse,” explained ChrisWhieldon, sales director. “Working with estates managers, we can provide viable handwash facilities at short notice. Their visibility and manoeuvrability is essential to maintaining high levels of hand hygiene. That mobility, and no requirement for connection to mains water or drainage, means each unit can be sited easily at a point-of-need.”
latter: “No other window product both features such high security elements, and allows premium air flow and light transmittance, while retaining performance and non-oppressive good looks.” Both aluminium windows comply with
BSEN 12020-2-2001, and come double glazed, or double or triple glazed, in the case of the Automated Opener. They can also incorporate Hammerglass – ‘the
virtually unbreakable, second generation’ polycarbonate sheet. Also fixed into both,
as part of the standard mental health specification, is a security mesh available in two light transmittance options. Fixing the security options into the window extrusion during production
‘makes for a robust window able to withstand even the harshest treatments’. The SlidingWindow has an anti-
ligature pull handle, and several locking options. The opening pane has a lock-off facility which can be designated at three different positions, and full lock facility, with ‘keyed alike’ euro profile cylinder.
Discreet radiant heating system
A radiant heating system that replaces radiators and skirting trim ‘in one convenient package’, developed in conjunction with the NHS, will be shown by DiscreteHeat. The EasyClean LST was
developed from the company’s successful ThermaSkirt radiant domestic skirting heating – as seen on the BBC’s ‘Dragons Den’, and incorporates new features including a bottom mounting rail that integrates smoothly into vinyl flooring, and a ‘high security’ top cover trim that seals the top edge to the wallcovering. This radiant heating system can be
‘simply mopped clean of infectious spores such as C. difficile and MRSA when the floor is cleaned’; ‘there are no covers to lift/remove, no special tools and equipment are needed, and no deep cleans and blocked gangways’.
With a ‘natural anti-ligature design’,
and offering ‘even, comfortable heat that feels like underfloor in operation, but is as controllable and responsive as a traditional radiator’, the system can be supplied in single-height configuration for bedrooms and living areas, and double-height for larger wards and ‘hard-to-heat’ spaces.
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