RECENT NEWS

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has secured a £6.588 million Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme grant to support it in its Route to Net Zero by 2040.

The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) and the government property profession (GPP) have established ‘a strategic partnership’ to drive up standards and innovation across the government estate and workplace and facilities management (WFM) more widely.

Community Health Partnerships (CHP) has published Transforming Neighbourhood Health – a report into how its place-based estate, developed via LIFT Public Private Partnerships, is – as it puts it – ‘already enabling the delivery of neighbourhood care in local communities’.

BDP’s design for the Birmingham Centre for Anatomy, Surgical and Clinical Skills (B-CASCS) has been granted planning permission.

The doors have officially opened to a new radiotherapy centre in Milton Keynes, sparing thousands of cancer patients each year from a lengthy 70-mile round trip to Oxford for vital treatment.

Construction is underway on the National Centre for Child Health Technology (NCCHT) in Sheffield – described as ‘a pioneering research and technology centre that will tackle some of the biggest challenges in children’s healthcare’.

A new multi-million pound diagnostics centre to help diagnose and treat a range of health conditions while improving waiting times for Warrington and Halton residents, delivered by Kier on behalf of Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has opened its doors.

Leading offsite manufacturer, McAvoy, in partnership with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, has achieved zero landfill waste during the construction of a new Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) extension at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.

GP practices across England can now access new technology with the introduction of 'the first new core IT system for 25 years'.

NHS South East London (NHS SE London) says it has identified the best sites for its first two women’s and girls’ health hubs ‘using innovative spatial analysis’.

Millions of patients will be treated and cared for closer to their home by new teams of health professionals, the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has announced, as – in the words of the Department of Health and Social Care – the Government’s Fit For The Future – 10 Year Health Plan for England, published today (3 July), ‘delivers a brand new era’ for the NHS, and ‘one of the most seismic shifts in care in the history of the health service.’

Willmott Dixon has started a £30 m regeneration programme at Barnes Hospital, recently joining patients, carers, NHS staff, teachers, and local leaders across health and education, in marking the commencement of works to develop an NHS mental health facility and a new Special Educational Needs (SEN) school there.

Liverpool children’s hospital, Alder Hey, and construction company, Morgan Sindall, are celebrating ‘a major milestone’ in the development of a new dedicated surgical NICU and expanded emergency care facility at the site, which is now structurally complete and set to open in 2026.

Reinsberg Group, the medical technology holding owned by investment firm BHM group, has completed the acquisition of PROTEC, a German developer and manufacturer of X-ray systems.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust has been allocated £4,761,000 from the government’s Estates Safety Fund for 2025/2026, to help it make some of the hospital buildings at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham safer.

NHS Property Services has announced the opening of seven new clinical rooms at Leighton Buzzard Health Centre following a ceremony attended by Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

New guidance has been published aimed at addressing a key knowledge gap around strategic asset management among UK workplace and facilities managers (WFMs).

Jill Nicholls (pictured) is stepping up from her current role as head of Service Development at The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) to replace Helen Yeulet as the Association’s new director of Competence and Compliance.

Integrated Health Projects (IHP) has successfully completed the construction of new, ‘state-of-the-art’ healthcare facilities in Bournemouth.

Bender UK has appointed Tim Checketts (pictured) as Commercial director to lead sales and marketing operations, and drive growth in what it dubs ‘critical infrastructure markets’, including rail, mobility, and healthcare.