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IHEEM has recently awarded Company Affiliate membership to Surrey-based provider of specialist ventilation cleaning Indepth Hygiene Services and international law firm Eversheds.

London’s Royal College of Music (RCM) in South Kensington was the venue for this year’s summer visit by members of the IHEEM London Branch/ Surrey Discussion Centre.

IHEEM is launching an AE Foundation (AE (F)) course scheme of work that will enable training providers to offer a course and qualification that will provide the knowledge and skills necessary to become an Authorising Engineer in speciality areas such as healthcare decontamination and medical gas pipeline systems.

The UK’s first purpose-built transplantation centre, designed by Ryder Architecture, has received planning approval. The £30 million institute will be built at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, already world renowned for its pioneering transplant surgery.

A hospital in Nottingham report that the use of disposable curtains aids them in the management of cleanliness on their wards and that changing curtains is now a pleasure rather than a chore.

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Mayo Building, a new £20 million state-of-the-art education centre, has officially opened at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.

West Yorkshire-based research and development organisation The Advanced Digital Institute (ADI) is leading a £1.5 million research project to develop a “leading edge” tele-health consultation system that will help doctors and carers talk with patients in their own homes, reducing the number of patients having to travel to and from hospitals.

Paralympic medal winner Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson has officially opened the newly-completed Eaglescliffe Health Centre in Stockton-on-Tees Pictured), designed by P+HS Architects and delivered by Tolent Construction ahead of programme and within budget for Abstract Integrated Healthcare.

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

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.

B.Braun Medical has defended its position as “the UK’s fastest-growing major healthcare organisation” with reported sales topping £100m for the first time.

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.

Testo is a world leader with over 50 years experience in the development and manufacture of high quality measurement instruments that provide our customers with exceptional durability, functionality and ease of use.

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”.