Helapet News

Helapet are pleased to welcome Chris Steng to the company in the role of Marketing Manager. Chris joins us from The University of Northampton where he spearheaded the commercial development strategy in training and consultancy services.

Chris brings him a wealth of experience in sales and marketing practice, working within both private and public sector industries. With exciting new developments forecasted in 2012, Chris will lead the Marketing and PR initiatives and continue to communicate the quality value of the Helapet service to our customers. We all wish him every success in his new role.

Chris says "I am very pleased to be taking up the position of Marketing Manager during such an exciting period for Helapet. The high standard of service associated with the Helapet brand is underpinned by the vast expertise and dedication of its staff, and it is a huge privilege for me to be among them."

Helapet are delighted to announce the appointment of John Blight as Managing Director of the Company. John has overseen the continued growth of the Helapet brand since being appointed as General Manager in 2008. Since then, he has successfully forged the company’s continued competitiveness against challenging market conditions, and his promotion comes in recognition of this achievement. We would like to offer John our congratulations, and look forward to continued success in 2012.

John : "I will be taking up this appointment at a very exciting time for Helapet. 2011 has been a year of solid growth for the business. We will be moving to new, larger premises early in 2012 and this will give us the opportunity to expand even further and develop new products and new markets. I am really looking forward to it."

SteriClean® Neutral Detergent is now available to complement the SteriClean® range of broad spectrum Biocidal and alcohol disinfectants.

A detergent with a PH7 +/- must be used in critical applications where surfaces could be damaged by acid or alkaline solutions. SteriClean® neutral detergent is an ideal choice for aseptic areas and pharmaceutical cleanrooms where soiling needs to be removed prior to cleaning with an active biocidal agent.

SteriClean® neutral detergent is blended with ionised water, filtered to 0.2 micron and filled in a class 10,000 cleanroom. Ready mixed and validated for maximum effect, each 0.9 litre bottle is supplied individually double bagged and sterilised by gamma irradiation at no less than 25 kGy.

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For more information please contact our sales team on 0800 0328 428.

Introducing TimestripPlus™

Helping you to cost effectively manage the cold chain from aseptic manufacture through to delivery to the patient.

Vaccines and some cytotoxic drugs can be rendered ineffective or lose efficacy if they are stored above 8 °C. Traditional methods of cold chain management rely on data loggers and time consuming manual recording of temperatures.

TimestripPlus™ is the only device that can effectively record a breach in the cold chain and indicate the length of time that the breach occurred.

TimestripPlus™ is a simple single se device that can be attached to any temperature sensitive drug or vaccine using the adhesive backing.

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In line with Helapet's continued commitment to education and the development of its staff and customers, we are delighted to present once again, the Helapet Awards for Independent Study in collaboration with the University of Derby.

The award for Best Independent Study 2010 for aseptic services was presented to Kristina Chapman, who is the Senior Technician at the Tameside General Hospital, at a special presentation held at the University of Derby on the 6th February. This was in recognition of her work 'The training and practical assessment of nursing staff in the aseptic preparation of intravenous additives made outside of pharmacy aseptics'.

The award for Best Independent Study 2010 for Clinical Pharmacy was awarded to Helen Thurnham from the Northern General Hospital for her module 5 project on 'Improving Pharmacy Discharge Process'.

Many congratulations to Kristina and Helen who have been studying the University of Derby BTEC professional Diploma whilst working in aseptic service units.

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In line with Helapet's continued commitment to education and the development of its staff and customers, we were once more delighted to sponsor the Kathryn Miles Poster Award in collaboration with the Association of Pharmacy Technicians.

Posters were presented at the APT conference and exhibition 2010 which was held in Chester, and were judged for content, clarity, originality and visual impact.

Many congratulations to Sally Kemp and Elizabeth Fidler who were presented with 1st prize for their poster entitled: 'Standardising Training and Accreditation within a nationally recognised framework using Pre and In process Checking (PIPC) as a model'.

2nd prize was awarded to Theresa Leach for her poster entitled 'The impact of the implementation of a prescription tracking system on dispensary services improving and communicating prescription processing times'. Theresa is Technician Team and Dispensary Manager at Worthing and Southlands hospital.

3rd prize went to Sean Brock for his poster 'Improving patient safety'. Sean is based at North Tyneside General Hospital.

The standard of entries was very high this year and it was pleasing to see the posters and abstracts submitted and displayed at the conference.

Well done to everyone who presented a poster and many congratulations to our worthy winners.

The winning poster abstracts can be viewed on our educational resource website: www.helapet.net