RECENT NEWS

Barts Health NHS Trust said its A&E department is undergoing major improvements, as part of more than £21 m being invested across Whipps Cross Hospital this year.

A new briefing from the Centre for Mental Health highlighted the most effective ways of supporting people in a mental health crisis. The recommendations include ‘updating estates which are no longer fit for purpose’.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust said it plans to invest £115 m across its five hospitals in 2025/26 to reduce estate risks and improve experience in response to redevelopment delays.

With the UK set to record its warmest summer on record, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is calling for urgent action to tackle the growing number of buildings that overheat.

UK-based lighting supplier Knightsbridge has named Dave Dawkins as its new chief executive officer.

Manufacturer Polar says its anti-ligature windows and doors are enhancing the safety, wellbeing and dignity of NHS patients in mental health sites.

Neurodivergent staff could help businesses become more successful if the right steps are taken to make workplaces more inclusive, new research suggests.

Resource management company Veolia aid upgrade project at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust’s Coombe Park estate.

With help from artificial intelligence, researchers at the world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered novel antibiotics that they say can combat two hard-to-treat infections: a drug-resistant form of gonorrhoea, and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is supporting a series of industry consultations that it says will ‘help to create the competence standards needed to make UK buildings safer and more sustainable’.

Seven leading design and construction organisations are co-signatories for the next edition of The Silent Pandemic whitepaper led by the Healthcare Infection Society exploring how the built environment can help prevent healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Facing increased surgical demand, and having initially planned only a cosmetic refresh of its operating theatre, Alnwick Hospital in Northumberland consulted with Bender UK, and it became clear that the theatre’s underlying electrical infrastructure was ‘dangerously outdated and non-compliant with modern HTM standards’.

Plans are now well underway for a new surgical centre at Guy’s Hospital in London, following government approval just granted to Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Ergéa, a UK provider of vendor-neutral Managed Equipment Services (MES), and Newton’s Tree, reportedly the first enterprise-wide AI platform for hospitals, have announced a ‘strategic partnership aimed at transforming healthcare organisations through integrated, AI-enabled, digital solutions’.

ABCA Systems, a North Tyneside-based provider of fire protection, security, and communications systems, has acquired RAAM Construction, a well-established provider of fire protection, construction, maintenance, and repair services.

As ‘one of the building automation sector’s leading drivers of better female representation’, the Building Controls Industry Association’s (BCIA) Young Engineers Network (YEN) recently co-hosted the 'Together We Engineer' event – ‘a thought-provoking discussion on empowering women and the next generation’.

Stepnell is set to deliver a Main Operating Base (MOB) in Dorset for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT), aiming to enhance the operational efficiency of emergency services across the South West.

The MTX project to create a new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre at Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford has reached a key milestone, with delivery and installation of 170 precisely engineered steel structural units now complete.

K1 Investment Management LLC (K1), reportedly ‘one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies’, has announced what it dubs ‘a strategic investment’ to combine SINGU and Micad, two European-based providers of real estate management software.

Vernacare recently welcomed the Public Health Wales Leadership Cohort to its Blackwood manufacturing facility in Monmouthshire for an engaging afternoon of learning, discussion, and collaboration focused on sustainability in healthcare.