RECENT NEWS

IHEEM’s London Branch will hold its AGM and dinner at the Henry VIII Hotel in Bayswater on Wednesday 13 February, with the event starting at 6.30 p.m. prompt.

Healthcare Estates 2008, being held at Harrogate International Centre (14-15 October), will have as its key theme “clean, safe and sustainable” environments for care, a particularly topical slant given the past year’s emphasis on the importance of clean, congenial and safe healthcare facilities for NHS patients.

The Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea has opened its doors to patients for the first time today (January 7) since part of the hospital suffered a serious fire on the afternoon of January 2.

Seventy-nine patients and around 200 staff had to be evacuated from London’s Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea – one of the world’s top cancer treatment centres – on the early afternoon of January 2 after a major fire broke out, destroying part of the building’s roof and damaging a number of other areas.

Clean air engineering specialist company Howorth has entered a new phase of its development with the buy-in of a new management team led by Andrew Steel.

Leaderflush Shapland, part of SIG plc, a specialist supplier to the construction and building markets, has acquired Birmingham-based Fitzpatrick Doors, which has manufactured metal doors and doorsets for the commercial and industrial building sectors for more than a century.

Maquet, supplier of specialist equipment for operating theatres and critical care, has transferred administration of its cardiopulmonary business to the company’s head office in Sunderland.

The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John’s Wood, London, is currently undergoing renovation and extension by Galliford Try.

Bosses at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust approved a one-off payment to individual staff members of £100 to thank them for helping the Trust to achieve an “Excellent” score in recent NHS performance ratings.

In the Barts and The London New Hospitals Programme, the UK’s largest PFI healthcare scheme ever to be signed, Howorth Medical will provide ten Exflow 32 canopies for use in new operating theatres.

Construction company Morgan Ashurst has been awarded a £9.9 million design and build contract to construct a threestorey primary care centre for St Paul’s Developments in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

UK law firm Addleshaw Goddard has advised on the Derbyshire Mental Health Trust project, the third and final scheme of the pathfinder batched PFI mental health project procured under the Government’s Private Finance Initiative.

The need to maintain a high quality hotel-like environment while keeping decoration costs to a minimum has led to a major installation of wall protection systems, from contract interior specialists Gradus, at the new PFI Queen’s Hospital in Romford.

Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Guernsey has installed the Somatom Sensation 64 and Magnetom Avanto 1.5 scanners from Siemens Medical Solutions in its newly built scanning department.

A consortium of PFI healthcare development specialists, Ryhurst and Sir Robert McAlpine, has been selected to partner Redcar & Cleveland PCT (formerly Langbaraugh PCT) in Teesside to develop a new £30 million integrated hospital and health centre in Redcar.

Ailsa Clews, an employee of food and facilities management services provider Sodexho Healthcare, has been awarded the title of Sodexho Healthcare Manager of the Year 2007 for her ongoing hard work and commitment as hotel services manager at the Gilbert Bain Hospital, Shetland Islands.

Following on from its appointment as client advisor on the £24 m state-of-the-art Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in February 2006, White Young Green (WYG) has been selected to undertake a design engineering role on the £2 m fit-out of the third floor of the building.

During a visit to the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospitals Trust, Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced that a preferred bidder had been appointed to build a new £228 million hospital. Construction of the hospital, at Pembury, close to Tunbridge Wells, is now scheduled to begin.

The new £25 million Walkergate Park Hospital in Newcastle, designed by P+HS Architects, has been officially opened by paralympic wheelchair athlete Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Among new members to have been recently welcomed into the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management is Ray Foley MSc MAPM MIET MIHEEM, who writes: