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HILDITCH GROUP LTD CELEBRATES 20TH BIRTHDAY
Equipment disposal experts, The Hilditch Group, have just celebrated their 20th Birthday.
Founded by husband and wife team, Mike & Nicky Hilditch, to provide an outlet for commercial and industrial equipment, MD Mike very soon noticed a market opportunity in the medical sector.
?Twenty years ago the medical market was very underdeveloped; in fact most hospitals threw their redundant equipment away. We were first asked to clear the kitchens of local hospitals but we noticed that whilst the hospital was happy to sell their catering equipment, they were filling skips with good hospital beds and stainless steel surgical trolleys!?
Initially the Hilditch Group was called in to clear large psychiatric hospitals as, at that time, the move was away from large institutions to care in the community. These old psychiatric hospitals dated from the Victorian era and often covered over 50 acres. They were, in effect, self sufficient towns; some even had their own railway station for visiting relatives! The sales included everything including tractors, machinery, kitchens, antiques, medical equipment, and even stain glass windows and church organs.
The Hilditch Group has since sold the contents of most of the hospital PFI rebuilds. But in fact its main business, as many of you know, is collecting and selling equipment on behalf of most of the acute hospitals in the UK, as well as most of the private health groups.
Of course, the enormous success the company has achieved is bound to attract some competition; however Managing Director, Mike Hilditch, is upbeat about the future. "The competition is very weak, they lack our expertise, but we are not complacent and have a number of new services that we will be rolling out over the next year which will strengthen our market position". Leading these initiatives will be Marketing Manager, Barney Greig, who joins the Hilditch Group having previously worked for the Consortium for Purchasing specializing in marketing new products.
"We are feeling very upbeat for the future with plans for expanding our premises, including buying a new warehouse, and we would like to thank all our loyal NHS customers for their help in establishing this company as the leading re-sellers of surplus hospital equipment".
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It's time now to beat any likely university fee increases and apply now for Eastwood Park's work-based Medical Technologies Foundation Degree, just in time for the next intake this October.
This relatively new degree has been run by Eastwood Park for the last three years, in partnership with Kingston University and in association with the Department of Health, Sector Skills Councils, SEMTA & Skills for Health, the MHRA, IHEEM, IPEM & IDSc.
The advantage of this course is that it is work-based and is spot on when it comes to fulfilling needs of employers as it was designed specifically to ensure their skill requirements were being met. Three pathways are available - medical equipment technology, decontamination and medical gases. Also for students, as the next level on from NVQ level 3 in decontamination and medical equipment technology it enables students to access the Medical Technologies Management BSc Honours degree in year 3. The majority of Eastwood Park's students have continued their studies with Kingston University during this last year recognising the further opportunities this qualification opens up.
However, time is running out to get your application in for this October, so if you have been mulling over this opportunity for some time, call Eastwood Park now on 01454 262777 and apply straight away. Further details are also on the website eastwoodpark.co.uk.
Download the application form.
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Qados : Quality products & services for the biomedical test equipment market
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Introducing PartnerCare
PartnerCare is a new flexible service solution from Drager Medical which is tailored to suit you.
We listened to our Biomedical Engineering customers discussing their needs and as a result PartnerCare was born. We understand that some Trusts would like to service their own medical equipment, with PartnerCare, we offer training and support to give the Biomed the understanding and confidence required to service our devices.
PartnerCare offers full technical training courses to give the Biomed the knowledge on the device and the skills to maintain the device in-house. PartnerCare also offers a contract on top of the training which covers all standard inclusions, such as delivery of maintenance parts, technical support and access to the Dr?ger online portal ServiceConnect. The contact may also include other options such as Remote Service Link or perhaps software upgrades if required.
To find out more, call us on 01442 213542, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit www.draeger.co.uk
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The Nihon Kohden Corporation is pleased to announce the opening of their new subsidiary in the UK.
Nihon Kohden is a long established manufacturer of high quality and innovative medical products in the fields of Patient Monitoring, Cardiology and Neurology. We have decided to invest in a UK subsidiary so that we can better serve our UK customers and partners. This strategy is in line with similar subsidiaries in other European countries. We have a long established business for our products in the UK and so the setting up of Nihon Kohden UK Ltd is a natural expansion for us which will allow us to work closer to our customer base and be able to support customer and market needs for the UK going forward.
We are based in
Tolworth Tower, Ewell Road, Surbiton, KT6 7EL
T. 0208 3908622
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UK customers can contact Nihon Kohden UK for any enquiry relating to our products and services where we will ensure they will receive immediate attention. We still intend to work with our established partners in certain segments or geographies, but our immediate focus will be with our direct sales operation for our patient monitoring products in England and Wales.
For the rest of our business we will work in conjunction with our partners.
Medilink Services will handle Patient monitoring and cardiology products in Scotland and Ireland
LifeTec Medical will handle our Cardiology business in England and Wales
Kallista Medical will handle our Neurology products in UK and Ireland
The team at Nihon Kohden UK Ltd are very excited about this opportunity and look forward to developing stronger working relationships with all our UK customers.
Yours sincerely 
