RECENT NEWS

IHEEM is supporting – and will be in attendance at – Health Facilities Scotland’s 2007 Annual Conference which is being held at the Airth Castle Hotel near Stirling on 6 and 7 November.

Five years on from his report for the Treasury, which paved the way for a 50% increase in NHS spending, Sir Derek Wanless has outlined deep concerns as well as successes in his latest review of the NHS.

IHEEM members now not only have free and confidential telephone legal advice available through Law Express but also access to basic legal information and advice through the LX-Personal website.

IHEEM accounts manager Marie Luckham (nee Davey) has returned to the Institute following maternity leave – her son, Alfie, was born in April.

IHEEM HQ has signed up to CIBSE’s “100 Days of Carbon Clean Up”.

IHEEM is running a series of seminars to give a general introduction to HTM07-01 and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) Regulations and to identify how the guidance will have an effect on everyday working practices.

Newcastle PFI has selected Brandon Medical as medical lighting suppliers for the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospitals.

Microbiology company Oxoid has announced the winners of the 2006/2007 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards:

Disabled outpatients visiting the Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Scotland, since the beginning of August, are receiving a free Hospital Mobility service set up by parking operator Vinci Park. Developed as part of an ongoing partnership with NHS Tayside, this initiative is a first for a UK parking company and an NHS hospital.

An agreement was reached in July for Pavillion Medical Ltd to purchase the assets of T-Med Medical Ltd from leading Engineering Group – Turkington Industries Ltd.

Dave Dolan, senior service engineer for Dalkia, the technical facilities and energy management company, at Christie Hospital, has become the first person in the UK to pass the Combustion Engineering Association’s (CEA) Boiler Operative Accreditation Scheme (BOAS).

NHS suppliers have been warned that their medical products risk being overlooked unless they meet greater environmental standards.

SterilPlus is providing a complete decontamination service for medical instruments used in BMI Healthcare’s three hospitals in Scotland.

The £311m Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals Development Project reached financial close on 2 July enabling the construction of new hospitals at Wakefield and Pontefract.

Barnsley Community Solutions (BCS) has marked the commencement of building work on its state-of-the-art Grimethorpe and Cudworth developments with a turf-cutting ceremony at each site in early August 2007.

Welconstruct has been awarded a multi-million pound fit out and process scheme for Synergy Healthcare’s new Super Centre at Wythenshawe in Manchester.

Patients across South East Essex will soon benefit from a range of state-ofthe- art new primary and social care centres after a significant contract was signed forming a new LIFT (Local Improvement Finance Trust) company that will develop up to 11 new health and social care buildings across the region.

Clean Modules, the healthcare clean room constructor, has built a new 325m2 aseptic processing facility featuring the latest rapid-gassing sterilisation technology in Brentwood, Essex for Martindale Specials, part of Cardinal Health.

Asteral, the vendor-independent Managed Equipment Service (MES) provider to the NHS, has announced the financial close of a £130 million, 35-year MES partnership with Peterborough (Progress Health) PLC for provision of a MES to three new hospital sites in Peterborough and the existing Stamford site.

Details of a conference titled Reducing the NHS Carbon Footprint have been announced.