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Panaz are honoured with an Innovation Award

On Thursday 25th November the North West Society of Chartered Accountants Annual Business Awards were held at Stanley House Hotel in Blackburn.

Porter Mathews and Marsden nominated Panaz in the Innovation Award category for the NWSCA Accountancy & Business Awards 2010, sponsored by Uclan. \n\nAfter completion of our formal application, Carmel Satterwaite, Head of Healthcare Sector Sales made a presentation of new technical healthcare product to a panel of judges referring to specific judging criteria. \n\nThe Award recognises a business or organisation that has really pushed the boundaries of how they operate, either through developing new products or services, finding ways of delivering existing products or services, or identifying new ways of operation.\n\nFinalists were:\n\nC-MAC Partnership Limited\nLine Mark UK Limited\nPanaz Limited\nSHP Limited\n\n

Cotswold Care Hospice – Gloucestershire

Corinne Godding, Head of Estates & Facilities explains why she chose Panaz fabrics. We were looking for a range of fabrics that was suitable for the hospice environment – not only meeting the needs of our patients but giving us a choice of style, colour and design.

Having to source all new soft furnishing for a new £2.8 million hospice, which was opened by HRH The Prince of Wales on 22 December 2008, was a daunting task. The purpose built eco-complex allows the charity to care for up to 100 patients a week. The Hospice helps anyone over the age of 18 years that has been diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness. What I really liked about Panaz was that they were able to offer a wide range of fabrics suitable for all areas of the hospice, this gave me a palate of colours, patterns and styles to work from when designing the interior of each room. The service we received was first class – everything arrived on time and judging by the favourable comments we have received from our patients and visitors the finished effect is a great success.

Queen Alexandra Hospital - Portsmouth

The re-development of Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth was a tremendous opportunity for Panaz Healthcare Division to work with the Trust, the Architects and Carillion Health in the provision of a unique drapery design for cubicles, windows and showers.

Taking a brief from BDP (Winchester), the Panaz design studio developed the theme for an exclusive cubicle drapery panel to feature throughout the hospital. The vision was to reflect the essence of Portsmouth in a collage of lively images. The result was a rainbow of vibrant colours with playful picture book impressions of the seaside with sealife, beach huts, sailing boats, kites, sand and sunshine. In situ, as illustrated, the draperies are lively, welcoming and friendly and mitigate the austere environment which can be created by medical equipment and white coats. Over the past two decades, HCAI (Healthcare Acquired Infection) has presented a significant challenge. The impact on such infections on patient safety and wellbeing and the distress to both patients and their families is compounded by the financial cost to the NHS in terms of service delivery. Of course, these costs are not isolated to the hospital alone but to the extended network of healthcare services with prolonged inpatient stay, further treatments, outpatient consultations and subsequent visits to GPs and community care. It is a disturbing statistic that approximately 5,000 people die each year from HCAI. The routes to infection are multiple and diverse and it is difficult to quantify the role of the environment in the transfer of infection. Some report that 19 percent of contamination may be attributable to the environment, others as much as 40 percent. The greatest risk for patients is contamination in the immediate vicinity of the patient such as bed rails, lockers, infusion pumps, draperies, etc. Ever mindful of the challenges presented by HCAI, Panaz work to provide innovative product to the healthcare market and have recently launched Shield Plus. This drapery fabric is the latest addition to the Panaz anti-microbial armoury. It is a high quality, 100% flame retardant polyester fabric protected by Maedical TM, a unique, non-leaching and non-silver antimicrobial which has been proved effective against the broadest spectrum of bacteria and is resilient to the harshest laundry protocols whilst remaining bonded and durable for the life of the fabric. Exclusive to Panaz, Maedical TM has been tested and approved for effectiveness by the Pasteur Institute under a EU funded programme, FLEXIFUNBAR contract no. 505864 IP-SME-FP6/nnFor further information relating to Shield Plus please contact Panaz on 01282 696969 or email kirsty.moniz@panaz.co.uk.