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Specialist NHS recruitment consultancy Fine Green Associates has been awarded Company Affiliate membership of IHEEM.

Sonnemann Toon Architects has completed a “fast-track” five-month £1 m refurbishment of the St. Mary’s Hospital outpatients department in Paddington, London. The main contractor was Progress Properties.

An overview of how forthcoming environmental legislation will impact on the healthcare estate function over the next 2-3 years, an examination of NHS sustainability policy, and a look at thermal modelling’s use to simulate the dynamic thermal performance of buildings, will be among highlights of an Environment and Sustainability event being held by IHEEM’s Yorkshire branch on 22 April.

Come and see us on Stand F16 where we will be happy to discuss the latest developments in Automatic Washroom Technology.

BioCote®, the leading brand for silver antimicrobial product protection, will be exhibiting on stand D6 at Healthcare Ireland 2009.

Wandsworth Group will be displaying IPiN Nurse Call along with Tele-Call Digital Bedside computing & Patient entertainment system and Safecall wireless nurse call.

Focused FM provides software, information and management support services to healthcare professionals working in facilities, estates and related functions.

Our client base spans across the industrial, commercial, educational, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and hospitality industries. Indeed Derrycourt is the main cleaning contract for the HSE in Dublin and its surrounding areas.

Don't miss Spirax Sarco at the Healthcare Ireland exhibition, from April 1st to 2nd. Our extensive knowledge of steam and its control simplifies and accelerates the specification, purchasing and installation of heating, hot water and clean steam services for healthcare facilities of all sizes.

Centriq provide class leading healthcare IT Infrastructure Solutions, IT Support Services and Consultancy.

BOC Medical are once again delighted to be attending the Healthcare Ireland Conference & Exhibition in the RDS Dublin on the 1st & 2nd April 2009.

Komfort’s Health & Cleanroom Division manufactures the CX modular wall and doorset system which is a totally flexible and fully relocatable bi-panel partition.

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

A new corporate (Affiliate) category of Institute membership now open to all NHS Trusts offers both an opportunity for more Trust staff to take advantage of the broad range of benefits available to IHEEM members, plus an additional 5% subscription discount for all members employed by the Trust taking up the membership.

With training budgets being tightened across the board, and employers in the health estate and facilities sector looking especially carefully at which training courses most merit their employees’ attendance, IHEEM is putting together a scheme that will see industry-offered training courses that meet its strict criteria Institute-approved for their Continual Professional Development content (CPD).

IHEEM is seeking members’ views, by the end of this month, on a range of designs for new Institute ties and ladies’ scarves. As a way to promote the Institute, the Membership Committee has decided to sponsor the production of a new range of ties for gentlemen and scarves for lady members.

A recent new IHEEM member who, having only joined last autumn, says he is already “highly impressed with what the Institute has to offer” and would recommend suitably qualified individuals get in touch to find out how they can benefit from membership, is estates engineering officer at the Luton & Dunstable NHS Trust Pat McDermott.

When pressure on operating theatres at London’s Royal Brompton Hospital saw the hospital’s design team face the challenge of finding space for a new theatre, bespoke modular healthcare facility contractor MTX Contracts devised a solution.

A pioneering nappy recycling facility to initially serve hospitals and other institutions – reportedly a UK first – is being planned for early next year. Plans for the Tylseley, Birmingham facility have been submitted to Birmingham City Council by Knowaste, a developer of recycling technologies for nappies and other absorbent hygiene products.

A fire at the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust’s Northwick Park Hospital on 11 February, believed to have started in a basement electrical plant room, saw around 170 patients evacuated. The evacuees were placed elsewhere in the hospital, at local primary care facilities, and at the Northwick Park’s sister hospital, Central Middlesex, in Park Royal.