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Patients, visitors, and staff at Broomfield Hospital near Chelmsford hospital are benefiting from extensive Wi-Fi connectivity improvements following significant additions and upgrades to the hospital’s Wi-Fi network.

A new surgical centre that will treat patients across Hertfordshire and west Essex, meaning quicker access to non-complex operations and procedures for patients is on course to open its doors from spring 2025 as construction work progresses.

Sodexo Ambassador, Matt Dawson MBE, recently joined Karin Smyth MP, Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care, and other influential figures from NHS England, at the 2024 NHS Estates and Facilities Forum.

The neurosurgery team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is introducing what it describes as ‘cutting-edge’, mixed reality technology into parts of its day-to-day work to improve training and patient care.

NHS Property Services has announced that the first phase of restoration works at the historic, grade-one listed Finsbury Health Centre in Clerkenwell has been completed.

Multidisciplinary specialist contractor, Dowds Group, in partnership with McLaren and DSSR, has successfully completed what it dubs ‘a transformative’ £30 million infrastructure upgrade at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich.

Work is due to start on an £8.5 million scheme to transform Sutton Cottage Hospital in North Birmingham into an integrated hub for healthcare services for older people.

Cundall, an international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy with over 1,000 staff in 27 locations worldwide,  has appointed Andrew Somerville as Partner to head the practice’s ‘rapidly growing’ science and technology sector.

Insulating hundreds of miles of pipework in commercial and industrial buildings would give an immediate boost to the UK’s net zero ambitions and dramatically cut running costs, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the Thermal Insulation Contractors’ Association (TICA).

A recent project at Peterborough Hospital undertaken to address winter pressures highlights the versatility and efficiency offered through modular construction, says specialist in the field, Wernick.

MTX has created a six-bed discharge lounge and five-bed palliative care ward in a new facility at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, using Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) to deliver the build within timescales supporting RAAC recovery work on the site.

West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, part of North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC), is set to open its doors following a £40 million redevelopment. This marks the practical completion of a new 55,860 ft2 two-storey extension, delivered by Graham through the ProCure22 framework.

Secure I.T. Environments, a design and build specialist for modular, containerised, and micro data centres, has completed an air-conditioning upgrade on the main ‘mission-critical’ data centre at London’s Royal Free Hospital.

Prime Minster, Keir Starmer, has pledged the ‘biggest reimagining of our NHS since its birth’ in a speech following the publication of ‘a full and independent investigation into the state of the NHS’.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and Croydon Health Services NHS Trust have appointed Assist Security Group (ASG) to provide security services.

Alder Hey’s CEO, Louise Shepherd CBE (pictured), will step down from her role in October to take up a new role as Regional director for NHS England’s North West Region, succeeding Richard Barker following his recent retirement.

A nurse and former hospital engineer’s joint solution to ‘messy storage’ of tubing and cables hung by patients’ beds is now available to buy, on the Walters Medical website.

‘Aiming to address specific-sector and regional challenges for customers’, Alan Dunne has been appointed to spearhead Aggreko’s growth strategy and innovation in the region.

Helvar, the international lighting technologies company specialising in intelligent and energy-saving lighting solutions, has announced that Kim Långström has officially assumed the role of CEO.

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