RECENT NEWS

Grundon Waste Management’s newly-launched inhaler recycling service has helped it win top honours with a Sustainability Award from the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA).

Secure I.T. Environments Ltd, a designer and builder of modular, containerised, and micro data centres, has completed a project for Poole Hospital to provide seven switch and data centre rooms serving operating theatres with fire suppression, protecting a total room volume of 840 m3.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has installed ‘a cutting-edge’ solar photovoltaic canopy over the car park of its Wharfedale Hospital site in Otley.

The second annual World Ventilation Day (WV8D), to be held this year on 8 November, will draw a direct link between failure to invest in improving ventilation and serious health problems linked to buildings.

Buildings should be made to work better for social and economic reasons; not just to meet safety and climate change goals, according to the President of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).

Orri, a specialist clinic in London’s Harley Street Medical Area, has opened a new day treatment facility on Wimpole Street for patients seeking support for eating disorders.

Quintain, the award-winning developer behind Wembley Park, which is ‘transforming long-neglected space around the National Stadium into a vibrant new district of London’, has announced news of a new GP ‘super surgery’ to open at the new district’s heart.

In what it describes as ‘a strategic acquisition and a significant milestone’ for the business, OCS, the global facilities service provider, has acquired Accuro, ‘a UK provider of business-critical facilities management services to the education and healthcare sectors’.

As the time comes for many NHS Trusts to update their Green Plans, in line with the NHS’s concerted drive towards a Net Zero carbon service, how many are on track to deliver their stated objectives?

Rod Foot, who has extensive sales, product management, and business development experience in the security, healthcare, and fire and critical protection sectors, has joined Call Systems Technology (‘CST’).

Enigma Medical Solutions says it new ‘state-of-the-art’ general anaesthetic mobile surgical unit – named after the River Caldew in Cumbria, where the company’s co-founders have run a community-based surgical service for the last decade – is ready to address the current urgent need for additional surgical capacity.

Kohler Uninterruptible Power (KUP) has unveiled its plans for the Irish market as part of its ongoing corporate growth at a customer event at its new site at Baldonnell Business Park in Dublin.

Plans to develop the Dorset County Hospital (DCH) site in Dorchester – including building a brand-new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit – have been approved by Dorset Council.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has partnered with Cinos to provide and manage its new telephony and Unified Communications (UC) solution.

BeaconMedaes UK came out top in two categories at this year’s IHEEM Healthcare Estates Awards in Manchester.

Healthcare infrastructure specialist, Archus, has been re-appointed as the lead supplier to NHS England for the delivery of the next phase of the NHS Estates Technical Standards and Guidance Programme.

Patients and staff on the major trauma ward at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, are now benefitting from more efficient facilities following a refurbishment project by multi-disciplinary consultancy, Pick Everard.

The Holdsworth Ward has undergone operational and spatial improvements, including upgraded sanitary facilities, bedhead services, and infrastructure elements. Pick Everard completed full RIBA Stage 1-6 delivery covering architecture, structural engineering, design management, health and safety services (CDM), and clerk of works.

Pharmacierge, a leading e-Prescription medtech business for private clinicians, has announced a ‘substantial’ expansion in London’s Wimpole Street, set to create central London’s largest robotically-enabled dispensary.

Morgan Sindall Construction has completed a new 964-space multi-storey car Park (MSCP) at North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH), delivering £36.5m of enabling works ahead of the wider rebuilding of the estate, including temporary car parking, asbestos removal, demolition, and the new-build MSCP and Cycle Hub.

Modern Methods of Construction specialist, MTX, says the new £12.5 m endoscopy unit built by it for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH) ‘is being recognised as an outstanding example of combining offsite design and advanced construction techniques with collaborative working’.