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https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375823/the-case-for-low-temperature-sterilization
#21
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Dean Burand
How do healthcare facilities meet the conflicting demands of togher infection control guidelines and regulations and increasingly delicate hi-tech medical devises? Faster, more effective, low temperature sterilization is a big part of the answer, says Dean Burand, Divisional Regulatory Affairs manager at specialist in instrument decontamination and sterilization, IHSS.
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375821/minor-refurbishments-to-boost-a-e-capacity
#22
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jon Huddy
Against a backdrop of continuing pressures on Accident and Emergency Departments, Jon Huddy, AIA, NCARB, President and senior A&E designer at international healthcare design consulting firm, Huddy HealtCare Consulting (a speaker on both days at this month's Healthcare Estates 20116 show), sets out a personal vision of how design teams might re-think configuration of such spaces to add extra capacity. He also examines how cleverly thought-out 'minor' refurbishment schemes can help estates teams effectively address the issue, potentially at low cost, and keep their space-hungry clinical counterparts happy into the bargain...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375820/maximising-your-asset-minimizing-the-cost
#23
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Leigh Preece
Standby generators are an essential piece of life-critical in every hospital. While acknowledging, however, that the generators represent a large capital investment, and that maintaining them in reliable running order 'represents a necessary, but significant expense', Leigh Preece, service director of Power Electrics Generators - one of the UK's leading names in the supply and maintenance of standby generation equipment - explains that there are ways for users both to amortise their outlay, and, in the process, to cut their overall electricity costs by 15-20%...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375806/making-the-meaning-of-guidance-clearer
#24
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John Prendergast, Sue Holding
Inconsistencies in language usage in guidance documents that impose compliance obligations can lead to confusion and misinterpretation, argue John Prendergast and Sue Holding, directors of Technical Publishing Resources, both of Whom have extensive experience in compiling and editing healthcare estates technical information. In this article they look at language use in Health Building Notes (HBNs) and Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs), highlight some of the problems with existing wording and phraseology, and suggest a way forward...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375805/trust-plays-its-part-in-carter-agenda
#25
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With Lord Carter's recent 'Productivity and Efficiency' review suggesting some £5 bn could be saved annually by acute Trusts in England by 2020 via activities such as 'smarter' procurement and better use of existing estate, the Procurement and Commercial team at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust have been working intensively to play their part. More efficient procurement, securing better deals on utility costs, and cutting the cost, and improving the efficiency of, sterile services activities, are among a wide range of initiatives championed by the team that have seen it deliver a £1...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375803/how-to-kick-start-your-bim-journey
#26
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Under a government mandate, from early April this year all centrally procured public sector projects were required to implement BIM (Building Information Modelling) at Level 2. Against this backdrop, 2 June saw IHWWM and HefmA jointly stage the first in a series of planned free-to-attend events promoting the use of BIM in the healthcare sector. Among the speakers at the seminar, which was chaired by BIM4Health chair and IHEEM Council member, Steve Batson, and held at the at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICs) in London, was Joel Martineau, LEED AP, digital practice manager at architectural and engineering firm, Stantec...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375802/prevailing-approaches-are-broken
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael Joubert
Planning and managing electrical compliance in line with BS7671 is challenging due to the lack of correct information, the volume of data, and the need to manually handle this electrical information. In this article, Michael Joubert, BSc Mech. Eng. (Industrial), MBA, operations director at EDIS, explains why electrical compliance management 'no longer needs to be a laborious and time-consuming task', and how estates managers in large hospitals are successfully addressing it.
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375460/a-growing-role-for-smart-sensors
#28
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Ghasson Shabha, Chris Conway
Dr. Ghasson Shabha, senior lecturer at the integrated Design and Construction Centre at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Birmingham City University (BCU), and associate professor, Chris Conway, associate professor and the Centre's acting head, explain their recent work to investigate 'the latest development' of incorporating smart sensor technology (SST) to monitor and detect airborne infection in British hospitals. Here they set out why they believe effective incorporation of such technology in healthcare facilities in this digital age is the sine qua non for an effective infection control strategy to mitigate against this 'endemic problem', and ask whether such smart sensors can indeed be the 'panacea for hospitals' ills'...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375222/carbon-reduction-and-greater-resilience-in-the-pipeline
#29
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claire Hennessy
Claire Hennessy, head of Operational Estates and Facilities Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HEJ - May 2016), describes a major infrastructure project currently ongoing at Oxford's John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals to upgrade and modernize heating and energy systems - one of the most challenging aspects of which has been the installation of a 1.4 km district heating system (Energy Link) between the two sites, involving laying of a variety of pipework and cabling under local roads. Without the heating and energy project, she explains, not only would the Trust have struggled to get through another winter, but it could also not have contemplated the redevelopment of the Churchill site, or met the expected needs of the John Radcliffe Hospital now and into the future...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375221/the-role-of-an-effective-ap-explained
#30
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kevin Furey
As one of the largest consumers of electricity in the country, the NHS is exceeding its reserved capacities and putting further strain on al already stretched electrical supply network, says Kevin Furey, Electrical Portfolio manager at Eastwood Park. Here he examines the issues facing the NHS in maintaining sufficient and sage electrical supplies that will also cope with the service's needs for the future.
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30375220/energy-efficiency-could-cut-nhs-costs-by-%C3%A2-400m
#31
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With the growing influence of digital applications in building maintenance, and the considerable pressures on NHS budgets, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA), examines some of the latest digital advances, and the potential cost savings for the health sector by harnessing them. One key focus is the SFG20 maintenance standard owned and maintained by the Association -'the UK's leading professional body for building and engineering services contractors' -which is about to be expanded again 'to provide comprehensive support for healthcare facilities by incorporating a Healthcare Functional Set developed in collaboration with IHEEM'...
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29517893/career-takes-off-after-aviation-adventure
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Willis Newson, Jane Willis
Founder and director of Bristol-based arts consultancy, Willis Newson, Jane Willis, describes how the firm worked closely with a number of teams at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and commissioned artists to redesign the Bereavement Suite and Sanctuary Space at Bristol Royal infirmary to provide more solace and comfort to bereaved visitors and relatives as part of a major conversion and extension project.
October 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29518308/the-rct-equivalence-route-to-registration
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Iain Threlkeld
Iain Threlkeld BEng(Hons), CEng, FIHEEM, MIPEM, head of Clinical Engineering at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, looks at the background to the establishment of the Register of Clinical Technologists, and describes a new 'equivalence route' to registration designed for experienced clinical technologists with a suitable degree-level qualification.
September 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29518307/a-live-in-security-solution-examined
#34
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simon Finneran
Simon Finneran, managing director of vacant property protection specialist, Ad Hoc Property Management (pictured), discusses how, in the company's words, estates managers in the healthcare sector "can make significant savings when looking for vacant property security solutions by installing salaried individuals in disused buildings to act as 'live in security'.
September 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29518306/-hidden-risks-in-legacy-buildings
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew Steel
Andrew Steel, managing director of air hygiene and water treatment specialist, Airmec, considers some of the key priorities for estates and facilities teams managing older healthcare estates to ensure that both the buildings, and the plant and equipment within them, are maintained in a safe, fit-for-purpose condition. He stresses the need both for accurate and proper risk assessment--particularly when 'legacy' buildings have been regularly adapted, updated, or refurbished over time, and, equally, to maintain up-to-date and comprehensive asset registers...
September 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29518305/a-future-proof-urgent-care-facility
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rob Bailey
A £35 m project to create what the Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust says will be 'a new, world-class urgent care and trauma centre' at Aintree University Hospital just north of Liverpool is nearing its conclusion, with the final phases due for completion by the year-end. As HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, discovered on meeting with construction manager--North West at BAM Construction, Rob Bailey, who is leading the construction scheme, and Paul Fitzpatrick, director of Estates and Facilities at the Trust, a complex scheme which has involved transferring some departments to temporary facilities, and ensuring that clinical activities continue uninterrupted throughout, has progressed on schedule thanks to effective multidisciplinary and multi-party collaboration...
September 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29518304/special-requirements-in-ucv-theatres
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Graeme Hall
Graeme Hall FIHEEM, MIET, managing director of Brandon Medical, considers in detail the particular requirements and criteria for operating lights used in ultraclean ventilation (UCV) theatres, and explains how the recent establishment of a standard for testing of lighting's suitability for such theatre environments will help designers and manufacturers, as well as those specifying UCV theatre illumination, going forward.
September 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29518303/high-profile-backing-for-gs1-drive
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Glen Hodgson
At the 2016 GS1 UK Healthcare Conference in London, delegates heard from speakers including Pat Mills, the Department of Health's commercial director, on the ongoing work to embed GS1 standards throughout the NHS in England in line with the DH's eProcurement Strategy, published in April 2014. This mandated that any service or product procured by an English NHS acute Trust comply with the standards--one of the most obvious representations of which is on barcodes--'to enable Trusts to manage their non-pay spending by adopting master procurement data, automating the exchange of such data, and benchmarking their procurement against other Trusts and healthcare providers'...
September 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29518302/bim-and-its-benefits-explained
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jonathan Baillie
A high-level look at Building Information Modelling's key benefits, the potential pitfalls, and the priorities for successful implementation, in the wake of the recent Government mandate that all centrally procured public sector construction projects commenced after 4 April this year be implementing BIM Level 2, was given by Chartered Quantity Surveyor, Gary Allen, of IDC-Consult, at the first in a series of planned IHEEM/HefmA joint seminars on the topic held recently at the headquarters of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in London...
September 2016: Health Estate
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29498812/work-based-training-s-profound-effect
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Klaus Muecher
Klaus Muecher, Higher Education Programmes manager at Eastwood Park Training, examines the benefits of work-based learning. He suggests that, in addition to equipping those undertaking such training with valuable new skills and expertise, 'in a world of continuous quality improvement and change management', work-based degree students can also act as 'the subtle drivers of positive change'.
August 2016: Health Estate
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