RECENT NEWS

IHEEM has welcomed Richard Boyce CIHEEM as the Institute’s acting Chief Executive Officer. A long-standing member of the Institute, and a member of IHEEM’s Council for over 15 years, Richard Boyce served as chair of the former Executive Committee, and has an extensive health service career background.

A new modular building at Hull Royal Infirmary that provides modern hospital facilities for up to 90,000 patients annually has been delivered by Portakabin.

World-leading surgeon, and former Health Minister, Lord Darzi (pictured right) outside the unit with the company’s development director, Gary King), has made a special visit to one of Vanguard Healthcare’s mobile operating theatres while it was at the new Covidien headquarters in Fareham for an open day.

The rapid construction of one of the UK’s largest concrete frame structures – for the £300 m Forth Valley Royal Acute Hospital at Larbert, was aided by the use of Bamtec, an off-site fabricated steel “carpet” of floor slab reinforcement, says its exclusive manufacturer in the UK, Hy-Ten.

The Department of Health has published its strategy to accelerate the release of public sector land to help local communities and the NHS.

Airwave is providing free-to-use television and radio in multi-bedded and single room spaces via especially high (1,300 mm) ceiling voids at the new Hope Building wing at Salford Royal Hospital.

Nittan, a manufacturer of fire detection products, has seen the first UK installation of its new EV-PS analogue addressable photoelectric smoke sensor with built-in sounder, at a new medical centre, the Cranleigh Gardens Medical Centre, in Bridgwater, Somerset.

Sudanese twins born joined at the head have been given life-saving surgery by a team of British doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital, with it taking the surgeons four procedures over three months to successfully separate them.

ANS Group has won a major contract with Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust to “virtualise” the Trust’s IT estate using its Infrastructure 3.0 network architecture.

Dor-O-Matic automatic doors, from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, have been installed during a comprehensive refurbishment at the South Tyneside District Hospital, South Shields.

Martek has manufactured and installed hard-wearing, stylish bespoke fixed furniture for the new 512-bed Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, the UK’s first large acute hospital offering 100% single room, en suite accommodation.

Howorth Air Technology has won the service and validation contract with Spire Healthcare for the second year running.

Shropshire’s 38-bed Whitchurch Community Hospital has installed a 250 kW output Hamworthy Biomatic biomass boiler.

The Carbon Trust Advice Line has launched a guide explaining how a wide range of organisations can cut energy bills via an effective energy management strategy.

A £100 million specialist cancer centre development designed by Arup and Hopkins Architects will open next April in central London, offering patients, their families, and carers, a range of holistic, patient-focused therapeutic and specialist services.

Natural ventilation specialist, Breathing Buildings, presented what the Cambridge University-spin-off low energy ventilation specialist described as “an innovative toolkit for mechanical engineers” at this year’s Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Technical Symposium, held at Leicester’s De Montfort University.

A 'complete helpdesk and maintenance management solution' by Real Asset Management (RAM) – designed specifically for NHS estates departments.

Trend’s message to visitors at this year’s show was that 84% of a healthcare estate’s energy consumption can be controlled by a building energy management system (BEMS); thus “just by making this asset work harder, significant energy and carbon savings can be made”.

Gilgen Door Systems showcased its expertise in commercial and industrial door automation, highlighting the quality of its nationwide maintenance and emergency repair services, and 'demonstrating core strengths and technological leadership'.

Pall's latest GeneDisc Cycler is an automated, miniaturised, real-time PCR system providing rapid, sensitive and specific pathogen detection, with an 'intuitive design and easy-to-use software' that the company says allows 'even minimally-trained personnel' to routinely perform sophisticated biological testing.