RECENT NEWS

Following on from the Health Care Ireland Exhibition, Derrycourt would like to thank all those who visited our stand over the two days in the RDS.

As you may have seen at Healthcare Ireland, Komfort has recently supplied their CX partitioning system for Theatre Number 6 at Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

We are very pleased at the response to our Automatic Washroom Products at the recent Healthcare Exhibition in the RDS.

Ultacare + by Thomas Montgomery Ltd. Featured at this years Healthcare Ireland Exhibition is Thomas Montgomery’s latest range of Healthcare Furniture – Ultracare +

BOC Medical took the opportunity of the Healthcare Ireland 2009 conference and exhibition in Dublin earlier this month to discuss and demonstrate a wide range of medical gas products and services.

North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust has appointed Balfour Beatty ProCure21, its architect, and contractor, to deliver almost £10 million worth of ProCure21 projects.

South West England architect Quattro Design placed considerable importance on maximising levels of natural daylight, promoting cross-ventilation, and using solar glazing to limit unwanted solar gains, thus “dramatically reducing” the use of artificial lighting and avoiding any need for mechanical ventilation or cooling, in its scheme for the renovation of the Petherton Resource Centre in the Hengrove area of Bristol.

Dry lining and fire protection specialist Pace Installations, commissioned by main contractor Thomas Barnes, has completed an accelerated programme of dry lining and suspended ceiling works at Blackpool Hospital.

Children at the Leicester Children’s Hospital, at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, are benefiting from a new 528 m2 rooftop play area supplied by Newark-based installer of impactabsorbing surfacing for playgrounds Playtop.

Sodexo Healthcare has won a five-year contract from Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to improve catering services at the Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals in Ascot and Slough in Berkshire.

Interserve has won a 19-year contract from Equitix worth over £2.5 million annually to deliver facilities management at seven sites in Leeds providing mental health services, owned and operated by Equitix, in a PFI project on behalf of the Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust.

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Representatives from Nightingale Associates recently attended the opening of St Francis Hospice, a palliative care facility in Romford, Essex that the architectural practice has worked on as part of the King’s Fund “Enhancing the Healing Environment” programme.

Ryhurst has developed a joint venture model, “STEP” (Service Targeted Estates Partnership) which it claims, “unlike other approaches such as PFI and NHS LIFT”, provides genuine sharing of the “risk” involved in developing and maintaining both existing healthcare buildings and new facilities.

The continuing focus on the sustainable aspects of healthcare building design and operation will a major talking point at this year’s Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition, with expert personnel from the NHS’s recently established Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) set to be on hand to give delegates free advice and information.

A large congregation of family and friends attended a recent memorial service for Ron Eunson at Morningside Baptist Church, Edinburgh. Ron Eunson had been a member of IHEEM since 1983, and a Registered Authorised Person (Sterilisers) since 1994.

IHEEM’s Welsh branch held its AGM on 26 February at the offices of Welsh Health Estates in Cardiff, with the evening beginning with an informative presentation by Anthony Pitcher, senior fire safety advisor, Welsh Health Estates, on fire sprinkler systems in healthcare premises.

Sales and marketing director at bedhead services specialist Static Systems Phil Wade and the company’s business development director Chris Turner recently turned in what the duo claim was “a great performance” at the home of Premiership football club Aston Villa.