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The British Institute of Facilities Management is overhauling its staff structure and making several key appointments to ensure it can meet the challenges of both its own strategy and the current economic climate.

Asset management and construction consultant to the healthcare sector Currie & Brown said it “worked around the clock” to ensure that the £200 million New Victoria and Stobhill Hospitals PFI project for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde reached another major milestone with the opening of the new Victoria hospital on time.

Cardiff construction company Morgan Ashurst is building a new £3.2 million extension at Velindre Hospital which will include ‘bunkers’ to house new radiotherapy machines.

16 June 2009: Nuffield Health, the UK’s leading healthcare charity, has completed the final phase of a £27m investment programme in its hospital decontamination services, on time and on budget.

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The Healthcare Facilities Consortium recently launched a new resource for healthcare professionals working in Facilities Management.

Aintree Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has purchased 11 Easy Rider Remote remote control bed/trolley driving devices from Dutch manufacturer RRB Netherlands with special adaptors that enable them to fit onto “around 95%” of the Trust’s “7-8” different types of existing beds and trolleys.

The organisers of October’s Healthcare Estates Conference and Exhibition say “a recordbreaking number of high quality papers” were submitted, offering attendees “specialised content and relevant information which will be of major benefit in creating and maintaining clean, safe and sustainable environments for care”.

A new 22-bedded infection control escalation ward, designed by LSI Architects, has opened at James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk, as part of the James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s ongoing campaign to improve the patient environment and enhance infection prevention and control.

BSI British Standards has published a “companion guide” to the structural Eurocodes”, due to come into force in March 2010, which will set out European standards for designing and building civil engineering works.

Chloride, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and services, has completed the acquisition of one of its distributors, Malcolm Power Systems,

Entry is now open for the 2010 CIBSE Low Carbon Performance Awards, which recognise proven achievements in delivering carbon savings in buildings.

Long-established healthcare sector cleaning specialist City & Kent Cleaning has evolved into the C K Group, a new operating name which,

Grahame Gardner has been accepted by the NHS as an approved supplier to provide uniforms and workwear for the next 2-4 years.

IHEEM members (quoting “IHEEM10” when booking) can get a 10% discount on the “Delivering Future Healthcare Estates” conference at Grange St Pauls, 10, Godliman Street, London on 18 June.

Awards for best facilities management service, best estates service, and for the best sustainable estates strategies in both acute and primary care settings, will be among those presented at the 2009 Building Better Healthcare (BBH) Awards, for which entries close on 30 June.

The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, the flagship of the £500 million Central Manchester Hospitals (PFI) investment, has been handed over, on time and on budget.

The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency has launched a new government-wide national framework agreement for signage solutions it estimates will provide the NHS with cost savings of at least 10% against previous agreements.

THE transformation of hospital wards has begun as the first stage of a £34 million scheme to centralise children’s hospital services at Leeds General Infirmary and adult acute medicine and older people’s services at the city’s St James’s University Hospital.

IHEEM would like to congratulate the following, who had Institute grades awarded recently: