RECENT NEWS

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:

High-level estates personnel from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland discussed some of the key challenges facing healthcare estates teams at a seminar, “The top five issues from a national perspective”, staged before the 2009 IHEEM AGM in London. Jonathan Baillie reports.

The President, Mr Rob Smith, presided. There were 21 members present. The meeting opened with the President welcoming the members to the meeting and calling on the CEO to read the Notice of the AGM.

IHEEM is to create a series of Technology Platforms which will act as a focus group on technology matters, create policy on technology issues, advise the Institute’s Council and guide members on significant issues arising, and manage technical responses and activities.

BAM Construction has appointed NG Bailey, one of the UK’s largest building services providers, to deliver all mechanical, electrical and ICT services for Great Ormond Street Hospital’s new clinical building. The £37.5 million contract will see it install and commission all mechanical and electrical services, working alongside its specialist off-site division, Bailey Off-Site, to manufacture 110 prefabricated corridor modules and electrical risers.

A technical seminar on sustainability staged by IHEEM’s Yorkshire branch was among the first showcasing opportunities for the Bradford Royal Infirmary’s new Sovereign Lecture Theatre (pictured).

We continue to be the preferred method of procurement for publically funded schemes and we have gained a considerable amount of new NHS Clients with it.

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

Schneider Electric highlighted the specialist support and advice it can offer the healthcare sector at this year’s HEFMA event.