RECENT NEWS

Tribal’s architectural practice, Nightingale Associates, has worked with the multi-disciplinary consulting, support and delivery services organisation’s health planners to win the first contract tendered in Scotland under the NHS procurement initiative, Frameworks Scotland, with principal supply chain partner BAM Construction.

Annabelle Morgan has recently joined IHEEM as accounts manager, replacing Marie Luckham, who left in mid-January after a 16-year spell at the Institute.

A wide circle of family and friends attended a recent memorial service at St Mary’s Northleigh, Oxfordshire for Ron Swinden, an Institute member for many decades who also organised the five annual branch meetings in Oxford for a lengthy period, writes Peter Tankard. Ron Swinden died at home in Northleigh on 4 November 2008.

Arrangements for a new Voluntary Register for Authorising Engineers (AE), the goal of which is to help healthcare organisations identify persons suitable to undertake the AE (MGPS) role within their management structure, have been approved by IHEEM, and the Register is now open for applications.

IHEEM is supporting Health Service Journal’s annual knowledge and best practice forum for senior players in the world of NHS estates and healthcare buildings.

This year’s Healthcare Estates conference will take place on 27 and 28 October at the Harrogate International Centre, and IHEEM is now inviting potential speakers to submit papers for consideration by a 9 April deadline.

The AGM of IHEEM’s North Western branch this month will see career X-ray technology engineer and branch member Keith Feay discuss during a special presentation how, having repaired his first X-ray machine in 1965, he has recently begun helping charityrun hospitals in Malawi keep such equipment in good running order (pictured right).

MTX is currently close to completing, working for ProCure 21 principal supply chain partner Laing O’Rourke, a new modular surgical unit comprising two ultra-clean theatres and two 16-bed wards for the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

IHEEM is one of several prominent UK engineering bodies to be a signatory to a recent Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) response to a consultation document on the future of science and engineering in the UK published by the Government’s Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) last July.

The first published results of a study into copper’s anti-microbial properties undertaken on a ward at Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital (Health Estate Journal – November 2008) have conclusively shown that surfaces made with materials containing the metal kill a wide range of potentially harmful microorganisms.

The potentially fatal consequences of specifying uncertified fire doors are highlighted in a hard-hitting new film developed to highlight the benefits of only specifying doors certified under the BWF-CERTIFIRE scheme.

The potentially fatal consequences of specifying uncertified fire doors are highlighted in a hard-hitting new film developed to highlight the benefits of only specifying doors certified under the BWF-CERTIFIRE scheme.

The first published results of a study into copper’s anti-microbial properties undertaken on a ward at Birmingham’s Selly Oak Hospital (Health Estate Journal – November 2008) have conclusively shown that surfaces made with materials containing the metal kill a wide range of potentially harmful microorganisms.

College lecturer Madelaine Moreland has become the 100,000th NHS patient to be treated on a mobile operating theatre.

Matrix Cleaning Systems has made a major addition to its client portfolio with the award of a contract from NHS Supply Chain, under which it will supply steam cleaning systems for use in NHS healthcare facilities.

Sheffield City Council chief executive John Mothersole and Master Cutler Gordon Bridge (pictured left and right respectively with David Oates, Hans Hux and Liam Grottick of B. Braun) have helped start construction of a £2 million state-of-the-art medical facility in Sheffield.

An online advertising service designed to “hook up” NHS providers with healthcare suppliers has been announced by Health Minister Ben Bradshaw.

With health estate managers under pressure to reduce emissions, energy consumption and maintenance bills, Eaton-Williams Service (EWS) is offering an HVAC optimisation service to help maximise plant efficiency which it says can bring “a very quick return on investment”.

The Northern Ireland Health Group (NIHG), a private sector consortium working with international property and construction consultancy Cyril Sweett, has been appointed to deliver a new 315-bed acute hospital outside Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, with a capital value of £267 million.

An important step in the proposed redevelopment of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital has taken place with the demolition of Linden House, the tower block in the site’s centre, by demolition experts from J Freeley.