RECENT NEWS

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.

Structural steel units used to create a new Urgent Treatment Centre are now installed at Clacton Hospital marking a significant milestone for the new facility being created by MTX Contracts Ltd for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

A new good practice guide from IWFM provides a transformative framework for how workplace and facilities management (WFM) professionals approach information management.

The 2025 Healthcare Estates conference in Manchester marked the launch of T-safe360, a new framework from T-safe created in direct response to the NHS Estates Technical Bulletin NETB 2024/03.

New platform to transforms hospital security through AI and integrated data/

During Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor Niamh Marriott, spoke with David Baker, Business Development Manager at Rock Compliance, to talk about the barriers to access across the healthcare system and the importance of keeping patient care at the forefront.

At Healthcare Estates 2025, Niamh Marriott, HEJ Editor, caught up with Simon Adamson, Director of Estates, Facilities and Capital at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, to discuss his journey to become IHEEM President Elect.

At Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor, Niamh Marriott, joined Mike Dunne, Authorising Engineer for Ventilation and Technical Director for Buildings at Stantec, to examine the industry’s pressing challenges and opportunities.

At Healthcare Estates 2025, HEJ Editor, Niamh Marriott, spoke with Constance Hales, Sales Director at Aquatools, on what keeps her passionate about the healthcare industry.