COVER STORY GARETH BRUNTON – MANAGING DIRECTOR, BENDER UK
Keeping the
integrated theatre show on the road
Gareth Brunton, managing director of Bender UK, explains how the electrical safety specialists have worked to ensure power system resilience of an integrated operating theatre at a new wing at St John & St Elizabeth – London’s leading charitable hospital.
The concept of the integrated theatre is simple: to bring together the various elements that make up today’s hi-tech theatre in an environment of seamless communication and functionality. Yet realising that concept requires the
complex delivery of elements, which may include clinical equipment, audio and video communication, environmental, ventilation and lighting controls, and data retrieval and display systems. Underpinning the resilience of the integrated operating theatre is the medical IT no-fail critical power system and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) battery back-up.
Uniting all those elements to create
integrated theatres that deliver optimum performance for clinical staff and safeguard patients to justify the investment by hospital trusts requires an extraordinary level of expertise and technical knowledge, and careful project management.
Bender UK is a leader in the delivery of
operating theatre upgrades and new build projects, managing and co-ordinating the various elements and working with main contractors and specialist suppliers to efficiently and cost-effectively complete each project. At the heart of each theatre is the high-capacity Merivaara OpenOR open
architecture digital management system, which integrates operating theatre devices, data and image management for rapid display of surgical imagery. Media related to the patient can be stored and managed through the system including video footage and images from surgery. OpenOR is a scalable solution tailored
to fit the requirements of any hospital. It integrates PACS (picture archiving and communication system) and hospital IT systems for patient worklists and data integration and is vendor-neutral, so does not limit the connection of image sources from other manufacturers, including third party endoscope integration with image capture triggering. Video is connected via a simple plug-
and-play function. The over IP-based audio and video management capability provides flexible video routing between sources and displays, allowing live procedures to be viewed and streamed outside the operating theatre to any given location.
Case study:
St John & St Elizabeth Hospital The new operating theatre complex at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital in north London, is the latest example of that technology delivery and sets the benchmark for integrated theatres in the
Gareth Brunton
Gareth Brunton is managing director at Bender UK. He is directly involved in establishing and developing strategic partnerships with healthcare sector suppliers. He determines the strategic direction of the business to ensure it remains a leader in the
turnkey deliver of new and refurbished operating theatres, the provision of advanced clinical equipment, and the supply and maintenance of power systems for critical areas of the
healthcare estate in the UK and Ireland. Gareth works closely with
stakeholders in public and private facilities to shape the Bender UK healthcare offering so that it precisely meets often complex
requirements to guarantee the safety of patients and staff, and delivers the most efficient, resilient and cost-effective clinical facilities now and in the future.
IFHE DIGEST 2022
UK. The hospital’s new £35m wing completed in autumn 2021 has created six hi-tech theatres along with recovery areas and patient rooms, and is part of a continuing redevelopment across the hospital. The new development includes a day
case suite, admissions lounge, new imaging department and consultant rooms. Casualty First, the hospital’s urgent care centre, doubles in size as part of the 45,000 square-feet development. St John & St Elizabeth Hospital
provides surgery, medical care, outpatient and diagnostic services for children, young people and adults. It is one of the country’s largest independent charity hospitals and the UK’s premier private hospital. The private hospital is unique among its peers in that it exists to fund St John’s Hospice charity, and its charitable status is based on the fact that surplus funds are used to run the hospice located within the grounds of the hospital. The inpatient, day care and community facility provide free
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