The investigative journalist who raised concerns about combustible cladding and high-rise buildings before the Grenfell Tower fire has warned the building services sector not to ignore new building safety regulations ‘despite growing frustration over project delays and rising costs’.
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Highlighting the value of social prescribing hubs
Alasdair Ben Dixon, a chartered architect and Partner at architecture and design practice, Collective Works, discusses the firm’s recent work with local organisations to design and create social prescribing hubs that give patients more agency in their own health outcomes – by making clear the activities which can most benefit their wellbeing. He...
How has thinking adapted since COVID-19?
COVID-19 highlighted gaps in public knowledge about infection prevention, emphasising the importance of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in healthcare design. In this first article in a three-part series, associate director for Healthcare at HLM Architects, Neil Orpwood, discusses IPC in healthcare design, and specifically the importance of...
Combating AMR requires multi-pronged approach
Dr Simon Pybus, a specialist registrar in medical microbiology and infectious diseases in Glasgow, George McCracken, head of Estates Risk and Environment at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, and Dr Michael Weinbren, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, and Specialist Advisor Microbiology, New Hospital Programme, discuss the key role of the...
Mounting backlog putting patients at risk
David Jones, director of Estates, Facilities, and Capital Development at University Hospital Southampton, and a fourth year PhD candidate, is researching the impact of the growing backlog maintenance level across England on patient safety incidents. He is looking both at the level of incidents directly linked to backlog maintenance, and at how ‘an...
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