RECENT NEWS

Construction firm, Morris & Spottiswood, has completed a large-scale refurbishment project with Circle Health Group as part of a multi-million pound investment at Ross Hall Hospital in Glasgow.

Aztec Solar Energy has become a Centrica Business Solutions energy partner, and will complete its first solar PV design and installation project at Poole Hospital in Dorset, as part of University Hospital Dorset NHS Foundation Trust’s transition to Net Zero.

Abloy UK has further strengthened its team with the appointment of Simon Wilson as Business Development manager for the Healthcare Sector.

Northwood and Pinner Cottage Hospital is set to be redeveloped after achieving full planning permission, with around £11 million to be injected into the project ‘to cement better health outcomes for the 20,000 patients who access the facility’.

With NHS repair backlogs reaching record levels, and – as they put it – ‘the New Hospital Programme facing an uncertain future’, modular construction firms, Darwin Group and Portakabin are calling for ‘a re-think’ around how healthcare estates are planned and funded.

Assa Abloy Door Group has announced a new internal restructure that sees the company joining forces with all comparable business units across Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, to form a new global division – the Assa Abloy EMEIA Door Business Segment.

NHS Property Services is celebrating the delivery of 25 new social prescribing sites to its partners across the country, achieving its goal of 100 sites being made available for patients.

Northumberland-based Merit, a UK industrialised construction and digital manufacturing specialist, has delivered ‘a major milestone’ for the new £25 million Elective Hub (Operating Theatre Block) at Solihull Hospital, designed to significantly enhance patient care and treatment capacity.

Water testing specialist, Alpha Scientific says that its relocation to a new, UKAS-accredited, microbiological water testing laboratory in Manchester further supports its ongoing commitment to support clients with their testing needs, and underlines its growth and expansion.

A webinar being held at 12.00 pm on 12 June in association with Health Estate Journal will see Alex Emms (pictured), Technical Director for Kohler Uninterruptible Power – who has over 30 years’ experience in the UK power protection sector, discuss the topic, ‘Powering Safety: Uninterruptible Power Systems for Life Safety in Healthcare Buildings’.

Amethyst Radiotherapy, a ‘leader in cutting-edge cancer treatment’, and specifically Stereotactic Radiosurgery, has announced the successful upgrade of its Gamma Knife machine at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), Queen Square, in central London.

A £9.7 m project to help keep patients and staff warm, as well as provide hot water, has been successfully completed on time and on budget at Hillingdon Hospital.

On 18 April, Per Mertesacker, current manager of the Arsenal Academy (pictured), officially opened 1 Lowther Road, a new NHS Integrated Community Mental Health Centre in Islington.

SPARK TSL is acquiring Sentean Group, a Dutch company with a complementary background in hospital entertainment and communication, and bringing its Fusion Bedside platform for clinical and patient apps to the UK.

Companies from Yorkshire-based Sewell Group have been appointed to three new Pagabo frameworks for consultancy and construction that enable clients across the public sector to access Sewell Group’s decarbonisation or estates consultancy to help improve their estate.

The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) has entered into a new ‘strategic partnership’ with market-leader in the energy and services sector, Equans – a collaboration that will the two organisations say will ‘leverage the huge potential of the workplace and facilities sector to help drive sustainability across organisations’.

Over £3.8 billion of taxpayer money has been saved by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) in the last year alone, as the agency celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

The Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH) NHS Foundation Trust’s new Dyson Cancer Centre will welcome its first patients this week (commencing 22 April 2024).

IHP, a joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine, has hosted the formal topping out ceremony at the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate near Loughborough.

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust has replaced two legacy laboratory information systems with a single instance of Clinisys WinPath.