RECENT NEWS

Mansell has been begun work on a £3 million, three-part refurbishment contract at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Secure power systems company Dale Power Solutions has established a facility near Aberdeen to support its growing sales and customer base north of the border.

Following significant growth in its business with the NHS, wireless communications company Call- Systems Technology (CST) has appointed David Wyllie, reportedly one of the UK’s leading healthcare communications experts, to head its healthcare division.

Staff at Lymington New Forest Hospital in Hampshire, including cleaners, caterers, porters and housekeepers, are reportedly the UK’s first to gain from a new training programme aimed at raising skills in public services.

The Association of Building Engineers is launching a pilot Advanced Apprenticeship scheme developed in conjunction with Asset Skills and offered on behalf of the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA).

Asbestos management firm Clifford Devlin has published “a simple A5 guide” to managing asbestos in the workplace, which outlines who is responsible for managing the substance in non-domestic premises and what those responsibilities are.

Steel erection and metal deck flooring in progress on the south portion of the new wing at Victoria Hospital, Kircaldy, Fife.

Questioning patients recently in hospital on elements such as ward overcrowding, the standard of lighting, potential noise distraction to nursing or clinical staff, and whether flooring was safe, will form part of a six-year research project led by the Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) and the University of York aimed at improving patient safety across the NHS.

IHEEM has been granted a further five-year licence to register engineers at three levels – Engineering Technician, Incorporated Engineer, and Chartered Engineer.

A further category of membership – University Affiliate – is being launched by the Institute, aimed at the engineering departments of universities, primarily to provide a link between academia and industry.

IHEEM is appealing for volunteers to fulfil a number of important roles, including mentoring less experienced colleagues to assist in their professional development. Chris Parker, the Institute’s recruitment/membership manager, explains.

With recent news of cases of Legionella at an East Kent hospital, a one-day workshop on “Ventilation Systems and water systems” being staged at Dublin’s Croke Park Stadium on 7 October, could hardly have come at a more appropriate time.

The latest developments and issues in the cleanroom sector, from energy consumption and “greener” cleanrooms to the latest filtration standards and regulatory approval guidelines, will be the focus of an IHEEM-supported seminar being staged by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) on 30 September at the organisation’s London headquarters in Birdcage Walk (pictured).

MTX Contracts has completed the remodelling and installation of a single ultra-clean operating theatre and recovery area at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot for the Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Construction of the new Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) and the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital is now complete.

A new device able to provide an isolated electrical supply in hospital rooms, without the need for central isolated power supply/uninterruptible power supply (IPS/UPS) units, has been invented by the principal physicist at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.

UK healthcare consultancy MJ Medical has been selected, along with its Lebanese partners, as lead design consultant for the consortium that will design, build and equip three new 400-bed general teaching hospitals in Baghdad, Diyala and Diwaniya in Iraq, in a US$400 million project.

Recognised as a centre of excellence for cancer and blood disorder treatment, The Queen’s Centre for Oncology and Haematology at Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, in East Yorkshire, has now secured a leading architectural award.

The new Akerman Road Heath Centre, NHS Lambeth’s latest NHS LIFT scheme, has been submitted for planning approval.

Latest figures from the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)’s annual PEAT assessments show the environment of inpatient units has improved and high standards of food, and privacy and dignity, have been maintained across the NHS over the past year.