RECENT NEWS

A new endoscopy unit has opened in Swindon, offering patients the opportunity to receive care sooner and closer to home.

NHS Property Services (NHSPS) has unlocked £217 m for the NHS during 2024/25 after meeting 100% of its performance targets, according to its Annual Report.

Trane Technologies has acquired a minority stake in Germany-based building automation software provider Kieback&Peter Group (K&P).

Learning to identify early indications of roof degradation and underlying system damage is an essential skill to have.

Kent Community Energy raises almost 150% of target in investment for solar powered sites across Kent.

James Eeles appointed as Kinedo ASM.

Bupa-owned Cromwell Hospital has opened a significant new clinical extension into the adjoining Lexham Gardens building.

Construction firm acquires facilities management provider Elite Group.

UK infrastructure services, construction and property group Kier has bolstered its healthcare team with three new appointments.

HEJ’s editor was invited by MTX to see the construction progress of a brand-new theatres project at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

A new surface-coating technology developed at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden could offer healthcare estates teams a new tool in the fight against hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).

Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has completed RIBA Stage 4 design works for the refurbishment of the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit at Queen’s Hospital in Romford.

NHS Property Services welcomed the start of construction on a new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Coventry at a groundbreaking ceremony last week.

The Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) has completed a major milestone in the development of its new shared pathology hub with the opening of a Containment Level 3 (CL3) laboratory.

Situated on Lakin Road, the hospital’s new main entrance has been fully redeveloped to create a welcoming, modern environment and improve food and retail offerings for patients, visitors, and staff.

In a UK first, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with mental health charity Off The Ropes to open the NHS’s first on-site boxing gym, located at the Trust’s Goldie Leigh site in London.

Willmott Dixon has commissioned comprehensive fire safety tests for cavity barriers on Cross-Laminated Timber to eliminate a technical gap that has created uncertainty and delays on cross-laminated timber (CLT) projects across the sector.

Funding to modernise intensive care and cardiac units at St Peter’s Hospital.

Britplas is incorporating therapeutic and recovery-focused design elements into secure healthcare perimeter systems, aiming to broaden how fencing is used within clinical environments.

Parminder Kalle to lead IMed’s new chapter of international growth as CCO.