1. Health Sector News
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Health Estate Journal
January 2015
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has signed
‘a ground-breaking strategic estates
partnership agreement’ with Ryhurst,
via which the latter will deliver ‘a wide-
ranging estates strategy that supports
the Trust in the delivery of excellent
patient care’.
Ryhurst, a specialist in ‘land and
asset solutions’ for the health and social
care markets, says the Trust is the first
non-Foundation Trust to enter a ‘50:50
joint venture’ partnership with a private
sector partner.
The Trust has now legally formed the
‘Wight Life Partnership LLP’, with NHS
Trust Development Authority backing,
signifying the start of the 15-year agree-
ment, with an option to extend for a fur-
ther five. Ryhurst and the Trust will work
‘in partnership’ to undertake a compre-
hensive review of the estate across all
Trust sites, ‘ensuring that buildings and
grounds are fully utilised, and suitable
for the delivery of modern healthcare’,
while ‘improving asset efficiency’, and
helping identify and develop any com-
mercial opportunities.
The Trust added: “To maximise this new
partnership’s benefits, it is anticipated that
Wight Life Partnership will also work very
closely with our other health and social
care system partners on the Isle of Wight.
This will help align estate strategies to
enable the joint Island health and social
care vision, ‘Person-centred, coordinated
health and social care’, to become a reality.
Karen Baker, Isle of Wight NHS Trust
CEO (pictured with Ryhurst MD, Stephen
Collinson), said: “As an organisation com-
mitted to innovative ways of working, we
are excited to work with Ryhurst to make
sure we can reinvest for the future.
“Working with partners across health
and social care, in order to provide
excellent patient care, it is important to
have up-to-date, state-of-the-art facilities.
“Our clinical strategy outlines how
more care will be provided in local
communities and patient homes, with
specialised services centralised on the
St. Mary’s Hospital site. By working in
partnership, we will look to make the best
use of our estate to support high quality
clinical services that meet the needs of
the Island communities we serve.”
Stephen Collinson added: “Our
innovative partnership model continues
to bring real value to deliver long-term,
strategic benefits for NHS estates. We
are delighted to be working with Isle of
Wight NHS Trust, marking the start of a
journey that will draw on both our capa-
bilities to add real value to the Trust’s
estate for the benefit of staff and patients.”
England’s only integrated acute, com-
munity, mental health, and ambulance
healthcare provider, the Isle of Wight
NHS Trust serves an isolated offshore
population of 140,000.
Isle of Wight Trust in ‘historic’ estates JV
Cover Story
the unit includes the anti-microbial additive.
“With the anti-microbial additive improving
patient safety, our GEM ‘Shield’ terminal
units meet needs even beyond what we
provided with our trusted GEM 10
installations,” said Andy Tudor, Atlas Copco
Medical UK product development manager.
The new GEM ‘Shield’ terminal unit
features a ‘modernised’ trim plate that
removes dust traps, decreasing cross-
infection risk. The fixing screws can be
accessed from the front, cutting the
exchange time by 15 minutes, for fast, simple
routine maintenance.
All GEM ‘Shield’ units can be easily
retrofitted onto existing GEM 10 installations.
Beacon Medæs added: “With added
patient safety features and improved
installation and maintenance, the new GEM
‘Shield’ terminal unit will ensure that the
reliable service our products are known for
will continue.”
Beacon Medæs says it is excited to have
launched ‘the next generation’ of medical
gas terminal units.
The company said: “In line with our ability
to stay at the forefront of medical
technology, we have produced GEM ‘Shield’
terminal units to better meet our customers’
needs.”
With a curved gas identification ring, the
GEM ‘Shield’ ‘not only looks more modern,
but also incorporates an anti-microbial
additive to help reduce cross-infection’. The
anti-microbial additive kills bacterial cells in
a number of ways. The additive binds to the
cell wall, disrupting growth. The ions
interfere with enzyme production, stopping
the cell from producing energy, and the
additive also interrupts the cell’s DNA,
preventing replication. Independent
laboratory reports show a reduction of E-coli
and MRSA ‘greater than 99 per cent’. A
safety taggant enables the user to verify that
Beacon Medæs
Atlas Copco Group
Telford Crescent
Staveley
Derbyshire, S43 3PF
Tel: 01246 561029
Email: andy.tudor@uk.atlascopco.com
‘Next generation’ of medical gas terminal units launched
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tion on drainage, ‘not covered by other
BSRIA guides’. BSRIA added: “For con-
struction clients, it provides a simple
insight into the main system options, and
can help improve communication with the
design team, while for construction pro-
fessionals, the guide offers a quick refer-
ence to hot and cold water services
systems, and can assist working knowl-
edge of the subject.”
BSRIA says its new ‘Illustrated Guide to
Hot and Cold Water Services’ (see also
Water Systems feature and round-up,
pages 61-66) complements its other ‘best-
selling’ illustrated guides to mechanical
and electrical building services and
renewable technologies.
It explains the principles and technology
used in hot and cold water services in all
types of buildings, and incorporates a sec-
Illustrated guide to hot and cold water services
the optimal operating environment,
touchscreens in the sterile field that
allow central control of all devices, and
full HD capture and archiving systems.
Links to the hospital’s ICENI Centre for
research and education in minimally
invasive surgery have also been
enhanced, and both theatres can easily
be upgraded for 3D technology.
When Karl Storz successfully bid to refit
two integrated theatres at Colchester
General Hospital, the team had just nine
days to work on each theatre; in just
over a fortnight, the hospital had two
new OR1 NEO integrated theatres featur-
ing ‘some of the most advanced technol-
ogy of its kind in the world for carrying
out minimally invasive surgery’.
The Hospital wanted to update existing
equipment in its laparoscopic theatres to
build on its status as a centre of excel-
lence for minimally invasive surgery.
A key element in the choice of the OR1
NEO was its new modular imaging plat-
form, IMAGE 1 SPIES (STORZ Professional
Image Enhancement System) – a modular
endoscopic imaging system adaptable to
specific requirements, which reportedly
enables surgeons to differentiate anatomy
more clearly.
Features in the new OR1 NEO theatres
include ambient green lighting to create
Theatres upgraded in a fortnight
X-ray waste
specialist
wins award
A UK waste company – Betts
Envirometal (HEJ – September 2013) –
has won the Best Financial Efficiency
model award in the 2014 Building
Better Healthcare Awards.
The Birmingham-based precious
metals recycling firm recovers precious
metals from used X-ray film and labora-
tory waste; in 2013 it reportedly deliv-
ered rebates value at £160,000 to the
NHS estate, disposing of 533,200 kg of
used X-ray film on the estate’s behalf.
Steve Withers, general manager,
described the win as “confirmation that
waste management should no longer
be viewed as a ‘dirty cost’.” He said:
“With NHS budgets frozen, and £20
billion in savings to be found by 2015,
a waste management company winning
in the Financial Efficiencies category is
particularly noteworthy. Healthcare
facilities managers and radiology
departments should reassess current
arrangements to ensure that they are
getting value for money.
“Precious metal-bearing wastes are
often bulked together with hazardous
wastes or, in film’s case, retained in
storage past its legal retention date.
This award demonstrates that in a mod-
ern, resource-driven age, those organi-
sations which rationalise and pay
attention to their waste streams will be
rewarded financially, while also going
the extra mile for the environment.”
pathogens such as Acinetobacter.”
With Ebola cases reaching the US,
many hospitals are setting up Ebola pre-
paredness protocols. Some, such as Rome
Memorial Hospital in New York, are
already fully equipped to handle a case
should it present itself. Rome Memorial is
already using Bioquell’s HPV technology
to fight more common infections.
Leanna Grace, from the hospi-
tal’s infection prevention
team, said: “When the patient
leaves here the room has to
be cleaned first, and we’d
have people in special protec-
tive equipment to clean the
room, and then we would put
the Bioquell robot in. It would
then take care of whatever might
be lingering.”
Bioquell’s 35% hydrogen peroxide
vapour (HPV) system (photo shows the
Bioquell Q-10 portable decontamination
‘suite’) for the decontamination of Ebola-
exposed environments has already been
successfully used in the UK, the US,
France, and the Netherlands, for disin-
fecting rooms or ambulances used to
treat Ebola patients, the company reports.
HPV ‘has the ability to elimi-
nate all pathogens, including
spores, from all surfaces’,
Bioquell explained. The com-
pany said: “Numerous studies
with prestigious institutions
such as Johns Hopkins and
Yale have shown HPV to
reduce infection rates for
spore forming pathogens like
C. difficile and Gram negative
HPV harnessed in
battle against Ebola
Chapters cover:
n Cold and hot water services.
n Bathroom and kitchen fittings.
n Drainage.
n Installation and commissioning.
Hard copies are priced at £30 to BSRIA
members, or £60 to non-members, while
PDFs are free to download for BSRIA
members, and cost £60 for non-members.
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in the STEM careers pipeline.”
Dr Martin Thomas, the Trust’s CEO, said:
“Tomorrow’s Engineers week highlights
that the UK’s economic prosperity
requires hundreds of thousands of new
engineers and technical designers over
the next few years.
“But we must recognise that numbers,
alone will not ensure our country’s future
economic success. We also need some of
these new engineers and designers to be
modern-day Sir Richard Arkwrights or
James Dysons – outstanding technical
leaders able to guide their country to engi-
neering success.”
Scholars are selected via assessment of
their academic, practical, and leadership
skills in STEM via ‘a rigorous selection
process’ comprising an assessed applica-
tion form; a two-hour aptitude exam, and a
university-based interview. The
Scholarships support STEM students
through their sixth form studies, and
‘encourage them into top universities or
higher apprenticeships’.
In ‘an inspiring curtain-raiser’ to
‘Tomorrow’s Engineers’ week last
November, the Arkwright Scholarships
Trust made its largest ever award of
Scholarships to youngsters that it hoped
would be ‘future leaders in the engineer-
ing profession’.
In all, 410 sixth-form Scholarships were
awarded at ceremonies in London and
Glasgow supported by the Institution of
Engineering and Technology and the
Lloyd’s Register Foundation – to Scholars
from all educational backgrounds from
across England, Scotland, Wales,
Northern Ireland, and the Channel Islands.
The Trust explained: “These Scholarships
‘act as a beacon’ to the most talented
younger STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Maths) students inspired
by Tomorrow’s Engineers week and other
outreach activities, and help ensure that
high-potential young people stay engaged
UK’s ‘future leaders in
engineering’ honoured
CSC seeking
new members
The Central Sterilising Club (CSC) is
keen to encourage all those with a
professional interest in decontamina-
tion and infection prevention and con-
trol to join it, explains John
Prendergast MIHEEM, decontamina-
tion engineer at NHS Wales Shared
Services Partnership, and CSC com-
mittee member.
The Club was founded in 1960 by a
small group either working in sterile
services departments, ‘or attempting to
solve the many problems associated with
developing rapid, safe methods for steril-
ising items in bulk.’ John Prendergast
said: “The early meetings were chaired by
the late Professor EM Darmady, (a senior
pathologist in Portsmouth), and attended
by medical and scientific experts who
became involved in future developments.
Many notable figures in sterilisation have
been, or are, members. The Club’s con-
tinuing strength is its multi-disciplinary
membership. It also includes personal
members within commercial companies,
contributing to a unique blend of skill,
experience, and expertise. Several
successful national groups have emerged
from the membership, including the
Institute of Decontamination Science, the
Infection Prevention Society, and the
Hospital Infection Society.”
For more information on the Central
Sterilising Club, visit: http://centralsteril-
isingclub.org/
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4. Specification for cleanliness revised
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Health Estate Journal
January 2015
Health Sector News
partnerships can bring together
the expertise and knowledge of
two organisations to produce a
different way of working that
opens up new opportunities and
ensures financial sustainability.”
In December 2013, The Trust
entered a five-year ‘strategic
relationship’ with Capita ‘set up
to identify efficiencies and better
ways of working, and accelerate the pace
with which improvements can be achieved.’
Capita says ‘an emerging focus’ will be
‘on understanding the impact of advances
in medical technology on the built envi-
ronment’, and ‘how technology, process
change, and facility planning, go hand-in-
hand to create a better patient experi-
ence’.
A new venture from Capita plc
will harness the healthcare
expertise of three leading
Capita businesses – its existing
health advisory practice, its
health insight business, and its
health infrastructure practice.
Capita Heath Partners ‘will
work with NHS organisations to
help deliver transformation’,
offering ‘a delivery-focused approach to
the key challenges of health and social
care integration, efficiency, and cost-sav-
ing targets, the use of information, and
effective management of resources’.
Richard Darch, executive director, Capita
Health Partners (pictured) said: “Capita’s
work with Sussex Community NHS Trust
demonstrates how long-term, strategic
Expertise to be combined
in new Capita venture
News in brief
Sodexo’s five-year, five London
hospital, contract
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
has chosen to partner with Sodexo for its
cleaning, portering, retail, and private
patient services, across its five hospitals
in London – Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea
Hospital; Hammersmith Hospital;
Charing Cross Hospital; St Mary’s
Hospital, and the Western Eye Hospital.
The five-year contract will also, Sodexo
says, see it ‘transform’ the Trust’s patient
dining services. Imperial College
Healthcare NHS Trust is one of England’s
largest NHS Trusts, providing services to
over one million patients annually.
Renewable energy projects
in the ascendancy
Figures recently released by Barbour
ABI, ‘chosen provider’ of construction
data to the Office for National Statistics
(ONS) and the Government, reveal that
more than £81 billion worth of renew-
able energy projects are proposed by
2025, representing nearly half of all
infrastructure spending in the UK.
Barbour’s data identifies a total of 405
renewable energy projects ‘in the
pipeline’, all but 17 of which are new-
build schemes.
Awards recognition
for operating light
Brandon Medical has achieved a ‘Highly
commended’ in the Building Better
Healthcare Awards 2014. The compa-
ny’s new operating theatre light, the
Quasar eLite (HEJ – May 2014), was
commended ‘for a unique set of fea-
tures which vastly improve user experi-
ence over existing offerings’. Graeme
Hall, Brandon’s MD, said: “Sales of the
product are increasing by the day, and
speak for the strength of the offering;
this recognition goes to show how
British healthcare companies are at the
forefront of medical technology.”
Cogenco CHP cuts carbon and
costs at Fairfield General
Fairfield General Hospital, in Bury,
Greater Manchester, is set to cut its
annual carbon emissions by some 700
tonnes thanks to the installation of a
new CHP unit supplied and commis-
sioned by Cogenco. The 520 KWe CHP
unit forms part of a new gas hot water
system that will replace the hospital’s
ageing coal-fired steam boiler plant. The
scheme will reduce emissions from the
Fairfield site by 53%, releasing savings
of around £600,000 per year for reinvest-
ment in patient services.
BSI has revised the PAS 5748
‘Specification for the planning, applica-
tion and measurement of cleanliness
services in hospitals’.
Sponsored by the Department of Health,
the specification was first published in 2011
as a means of helping acute, community,
and mental health hospitals in England
demonstrate that plans were in place to keep
their premises clean and safe for patients.
BSI explained: “The specification pro-
vides a framework for a risk-based clean-
ing system, and takes a continuous
improvement approach to hygiene.”
Among areas covered are:
n Governance of a cleanliness service.
n Assessment of the risk of a lack of
cleanliness (for infection and damage
to patient, public, or staff confidence).
n Providing cleaning tasks.
n Measuring cleanliness on the basis of
visual inspection.
n Implementing corrective action.
n Conducting performance analysis, and
implementing improvement actions.
Anne Hayes, head of Market Development
for Governance & Risk at BSI, said: “This
specification can support care providers in
giving patients confidence that the hospital
environment is clean. The current revision
remains relevant to today’s healthcare envi-
ronment, and PAS 5748 is commended to
anybody responsible for providing a clean,
safe environment for patient care.”
PAS 5748 is free to download for NHS
staff in England at:
http://shop.bsigroup.com/pas-5748
Roof outlet range
re-launched
Aluminium rainwater solutions special-
ist, Alutec, has re-launched its ‘increas-
ingly popular’ roof outlet range.
Said to offer ‘market-leading’ flow rate
performance, the range covers all appli-
cations – from standard roof outlets to
balcony, car park, and parapet systems
‘with the same robust quality and
endurance specifiers have grown to love’.
All Alutec’s roof outlets are made from
marine grade cast aluminium, giving a
life expectancy of ‘50 years or more’. They
are also said to be ‘virtually maintenance
free, thanks to the integral grates, which
prevent debris from entering the outlet’,
and can benefit from the supplier’s
‘patented anti-vortex system,’ which
further increases flow rate.
Alutec’s comprehensive range of roof
outlets can be seen in full in its new
brochure, downloadable from its website.

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ing garden’. A comfortable reception
within the first pebble leads into the
consulting, examination, therapies, and
information facilities. A generously
glazed informal seating space forms the
link to the second, housing the more
private treatment facility.
The design complies with the ‘Macmillan
Quality Environment Mark’, and is set to
achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’.
The Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre
in Harrogate has officially been opened.
Designed by IBI Group, and built by
Sir Robert McAlpine, the ‘gracefully
curved’ building is planned around two
linked ‘pebbles’.
Simon Henderson, head of Cancer
Environments at Macmillan Cancer
Support, added: “By listening to what
patients and staff told us they wanted,
we have turned the traditional treatment
centre on its head, and put their needs at
the heart of this inspiring building.”
At the heart of each ‘pebble’ is a ‘heal-
‘Graceful curves’ create serene
care environment
Diary dates
22 January: IHEEM North West Branch
Visit to Electricity North West Area
Control Room – Further details to follow.
T: 01457 867637.
Email: prtansey@googlemail.com
29 January: Annual Henry Stewart
Primary Healthcare Property briefing,
Le Meridien Hotel, London. (IHEEM
members receive a 10% discount).
http://tinyurl.com/p73jvkt
19 February: IHEEM North West Branch
seminar on Air Filtration in Hospitals, and
Branch AGM – Further details to follow.
24 March: IHEEM Wales Branch ‘Lighting
the way’ – presentation and overview of
Truck-Lite Europe Ltd, ‘forerunner in LED
and incandescent lighting technology, mir-
ror manufacturing, and trailer assemblies’,
Holiday Inn Express, Newport. 6.45 p.m.
for 7.00 p.m start. T: 01633 213160.
Email: iheemwales@gmail.com
23 April: IHEEM North West Branch visit
to Sports City to see automatic controls
and building energy management system
– Further details to follow.
30 June: IHEEM technical seminar on
decontamination – ‘the hidden issues’,
Birmingham, venue tba. T: 023 9282
3186; Email: chris.blower@iheem.org.uk,
www.iheem.org.uk
20-21 October: Healthcare Estates
2015, Manchester Central. T: +44
(0)1892 518877; www.healthcare-
estates.com
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Although, it says, ‘stylish and safe’ is
‘not a combination of words often used
when discussing building materials’,
specialist manufacturer of anti-ligature
products, Intastop, believes it has
successfully combined ‘both luxurious,
high quality style’ and ‘highly effective
safeguards’ within its new range of
handrails.
The ‘high quality, solid wood’ handrails
reportedly offer ‘complete safety’. For
those with mobility requirements, they
protrude 600 mm from the wall, giving an
increased hand grab, and incorporate
secure anti-tamper screw fixings hidden
by timber pellets, offering a ‘totally flush
finish’ for ligature prevention. They also
‘benefit from antibacterial properties’.
“Our wooden handrails – available in
a range of wood finishes – offer a
premium solution, and are perfect in
settings where style and practicality are
required,” explained Sarah Barsby,
marketing director at Intastop. “They are
ideal for corridors, yet, with the ability to
ascend, are entirely suitable for
stairways too.”
The wooden handrails are designed
to meet HBN 00-04 standards.
Handrails‘both
stylish,andsafe’