RECENT NEWS

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.

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.