News: Inditherm up for NHS award

Rotherham's Inditherm has been shortlisted for another award, this for suppliers delivering sustainability in the NHS.

The award process considers partnerships with a number of UK hospitals, who have adopted Inditherm technology and contributed to confirming the efficacy of the technology and raising awareness more widely, both in the UK and overseas.

Inditherm's energy efficient polymer technology is used in heating mattresses, pipework, sports pitches, storage vessels and medical treatments.

Inditherm's niche medical products include the CosyTherm neonatal range and their systems can warm patients during surgery at the same running cost as a light-bulb.

This is helping hospitals to meet the UK's NICE guidelines on perioperative hypothermia, where traditional patient warming systems are putting a significant extra burden on budgets.

What has not always been appreciated is the environmental advantage that can be gained. In their presentation to the judging panel Inditherm highlighted that with historic warming practice savings of 1,000 kWh per operating theatre would be realised each year by adopting Inditherm technology.

Inditherm Chief Executive, Nick Bettles, said: "We have a growing number of UK hospitals using our technology and we appreciate the recommendations our partners in this award have given to other hospitals.

"One of the battles we have faced is that our proposition is sometimes perceived as too good to be true!

"The pressure on NHS budgets has helped to encourage more Trusts to consider the savings Inditherm can deliver and we find that once the clinical staff have tried the system they generally realise quite quickly how well it performs and how much more convenient it is than traditional air warming technology."

Inditherm website

Rotherham

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