RECENT NEWS

A specialist postgraduate medical specialist and research training centre in Malawi, designed by leading African architecture and engineering practice FBW Group, has been officially opened.

West Yorkshire-based Knightsbridge Furniture has announced a new collaboration with Cranium Medical Products of Boksburg, South Africa, which creates ‘100% recyclable furniture optimised for the healing of patients’.

The Engineering Council has signed a ‘landmark’ Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the USA’s National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Kier to deliver a new £22.5m endoscopy building at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) in Farnborough Common near Bromley in Kent.

Aspiring healthcare professionals in the region will soon be benefiting from ‘state-of-the-art’, fully accessible anatomy training facilities at the University of East Anglia (UEA), designed bv LSI Architects, following the start of building works at the site on Norwich Research Park.

The Passive Fire Knowledge Group (PFKG) and The Get It Right Initiative (GIRI) have announced plans to work together ‘to improve safety and construction practices’ by sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas, and promoting each other’s aims and objectives.

The Engineering Council has successfully been voted in to join the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), becoming the 24th member of the Government-appointed body.

A clean air technology company is ramping up its focus on innovation with a new department specialising in the research and development of products for the healthcare sector.

Tesco, Veolia, Groundwork, and NHS Property Services, have joined forces to recycle soft plastics into outdoor furniture for upcoming social prescribing green spaces.

Sisk has been appointed via the ProCure23 framework to build two new operating theatres and associated recovery and clinical support spaces, for the new Lewisham Surgical Centre at University Hospital Lewisham, which are set to become operational next year.

IHEEM has released the complete schedule of conference presentations, keynotes, exhibition seminars, and workshops for Healthcare Estates 2024 – which will take place on 8 and 9 October at Manchester Central.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced today (Wednesday 7 August 2024) that it has provisionally decided to fine Advanced Computer Software Group Ltd (Advanced) £6.09 m following an initial finding that the provider failed to implement measures to protect the personal information of 82,946 people, including some sensitive personal information, in an NHS ransomware incident in August 2022

At P4 we have been manufacturing self-testing emergency lighting for over 35 years, starting out in Bedfordshire in The Warner family home. In 2011, following several strategic growth steps, we moved into our current purpose-built factory in Fakenham, Norfolk.

More than 1,000 newly qualified GPs will be recruited across England thanks to government action to – as the Department of Health & Social Care puts it – ‘remove red tape currently preventing surgeries from hiring doctors’.

Security services specialist, Magenta Security Services, has launched a programme to provide mental health and 'general wellbeing' support to staff.

Global resource management company, Veolia, is set to deliver Specialist Estates Engineering and Maintenance Services to a range of NHS and public sector authorities, after securing a place on the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) Hard FM Framework.

Zentia, a UK specialist in complete ceiling solutions, has spent £2 million on upgrades and refurbishments at its two manufacturing sites in Team Valley, Gateshead, in an investment that reflects its commitment to UK manufacturing.

Contractor, Henry Brothers Construction, has been appointed to build a new £15 m centre for community health services in Belper, Derbyshire, on the site of the former Belper Clinic, as part of the Babington Hospital site on Derby Road.

In a recent major operating theatre design-and-build project for Whiston Hospital, specialist in critical ventilation systems for healthcare and life science projects, Medical Air Technology (MAT), joined main contractor, Warden Construction, to deliver ‘an outstanding new theatre suite’.

Mitie has secured a new contract with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, to provide waste services across the city’s Queen’s Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, initially for three years, but with the option to extend for a further two.