RECENT NEWS

NHS patients in and around Havant should soon see greater availability of diagnostic services and reduced waiting times for investigations following the Department of Health’s awarding, to Care UK, of a contract to develop and run the Havant NHS Diagnostic Centre.

OCS Integrated Services Healthcare has won a five-year contract to supply a 24-hour support package to a Redbridge, Essex mental health unit and day hospital.

Twenty-three Tristel fully automated chlorine dioxide generators have been installed at UK NHS hospitals, for automatically delivering measured amounts of CIO2 to BHT’s Innova E series endoscope reprocessing (washer-disinfector) systems.

A £25 m ProCure21 contract at Watford General Hospital has been awarded to Medicinq Osborne, a consortium formed by Osborne, Midas Projects and Simons Construction.

Manchester’s Christie Hospital, one of Europe’s leading cancer treatment hospitals, has announced plans for a £35 m patient treatment centre which will incorporate the world’s biggest early trials unit and an expanded “world-class” chemotherapy centre.

A consultancy team led by one of Scandinavia’s leading architectural practices, CF Møller, which also includes staff from London practice Avanti Architects, has won the architectural competition for the biggest hospital construction project in Danish history.

IHEEM’s Irish branch, IHEEM Ireland, will host a series of educational sessions on topics ranging from “designing healthcare facilities through a sustainable model” to “procurement designed to deliver” at next month’s Healthcare Ireland conference and exhibition, being held at the RDS, Dublin from 23 to 24 April.

IHEEM recently opened its doors to a local college, South Downs, after its request that the Institute host a work experience placement for a student on the OCR Certificate in Administration course.

IHEEM says that, given recent announcements by the Prime Minister on the heightened importance of protecting public areas, plus the recent flooding in some parts of the country and the fire at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital, there has never been a more important time to ensure the resilience of healthcare estates.

The ongoing debate over single inpatient accommodation versus four-bed bays will be among the key conference themes at IHEEM’s Healthcare Estates 2008 event, which is being held from 14 to 15 October at the Harrogate International Centre.

Aura Corporation’s Actulite polarised daylight lighting has been specified for use in four operating theatres and two patient wards at Barnsley Hospital as part of an upgrade of the facilities.

Portakabin has worked closely with the estates team at Dunfermline’s Queen Margaret Hospital and the hospital’s architect to design a new standalone ante-natal unit in just 16 weeks after hospital chiefs decided more space was needed in the main building for a new medical admissions unit.

Young patients at Sheffield Children’s Hospital can now keep up with their schoolwork, access a range of entertainment services, and telephone their friends and family, all at no cost, following the hospital’s recent installation of 17 in JaoTech Obie bedside patient information / entertainment terminals.

Nuffield Hospitals, the UK’s largest not-for-profit independent healthcare provider, has agreed to sell nine of its hospitals to General Healthcare Group (GHG).

A £25 m ProCure21 contract at Watford General Hospital has been awarded to Medicinq Osborne, a consortium formed by Osborne, Midas Projects and Simons Construction.

Following a competition win in late 2007 against seven competitors from the UK, Germany, Holland, Italy, the Ukraine and the US, bdpgroupe6, an architectural practice with offices in London, Paris and Dublin that undertakes international healthcare commissions, has been appointed to design a 250-bed children’s hospital on a 10 hectare suite near Kiev in the Ukraine.

Manchester’s Christie Hospital, one of Europe’s leading cancer treatment hospitals, has announced plans for a £35 m patient treatment centre which will incorporate the world’s biggest early trials unit and an expanded “world-class” chemotherapy centre.

A consultancy team led by one of Scandinavia’s leading architectural practices, CF Møller, which also includes staff from London practice Avanti Architects, has won the architectural competition for the biggest hospital construction project in Danish history.

Hydrop ECS, an independent consultancy involved in legionellosis management and control, has been accredited by The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) to provide specific training for managers responsible for preventing and controlling Legionnaires’ disease.

Financial close has been reached in just six months on the £75m Ad>ance project, under which John Laing will provide a new hospital for mental health and learning disabilities care to replace the existing St Luke’s Hospital in Middlesborough for the Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust.