Continued success for Awards Winner Brandon Medical
Continued Success for Chamber Awards Winner Brandon Medical
Following on from winning the Award for Outstanding Achievement at the BCC’s Chamber Awards in November 2009, Brandon Medical have been going from strength to strength.
During July alone they have had two major achievements;
• Brandon Medical have been selected to be one of just 25 companies to represent the UK at the European Business Award 2010
• The company has completed work at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust to transforming their theatres with Brandon Medicals award winning Quasar HD-LED lights
Chamber Awards winner for Innovation Through Technology Brandon Medical was selected form 15,000 applications to represent the UK at the European Business Award.
The European Business Award is an independent programme designed to recognise and promote excellence, best practice and innovation in the European business community.
Graeme Hall, Managing Director of Brandon Medical said “To be short listed for an award alongside companies with the stature of British Land, Admiral Group and ARM is a real privilege and a testimony to our innovation credentials.”
Brandon Medical have shown real innovation and commercial acumen to get this far and will now battle it out to scoop a prestigious Ruban d’Honneur. Brandon will now be judged against the best of all the European countries by a panel of economists, academics, business leaders, politicians and media owners and hope to become the top scoring company and win their category.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH) continually improves their services by incorporating the latest medical technology made available to the NHS. To fit in line with this objective GOSH have transformed their theatres by installing the worlds best LED theatre lights from our award winner Brandon Medical.
Brandon Medicals Quasar HD-LED was selected not only for its high performance as the best colour rendition of any operating theatre light, but also for its economical and environmental features.
The light has been designed to be in line with the NHS’s 2012 carbon emissions target. HD-LED® lights use up to 70 per cent less energy than conventional medical lighting and will provide the Trust with substantial economic and environmental savings.
Chamber Awards 2009
Brandon Medical won the Regional and National Awards for Innovation Through Technology in 2009. They then went on to become winners of the Chamber Awards Outstanding Achievement Award banking them the cash prize of £50,000 courtesy of RBS / Natwest.
Member of Leeds, York & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce Brandon Medical used part of the £50,000 to invest in further research and development to help raise the standard of healthcare in the UK. The £50,000 will also go towards funding a virtual library of advanced surgical training that can store and deliver training to surgeons on demand, all over the world.
Managing Director Graeme Hall said “We are thrilled to receive this award. Brandon Medical is dedicated to providing new innovations to improve Hospitals and its patient care. It’s great to see our investments in research and development recognised in this way by the Chambers.”
To learn more about Brandon Medicals progress since winning the Chamber Awards visit: http://www.chamberawards.co.uk/2010/key_success_stories.asp