RECENT NEWS

The University Hospital of Hartlepool is hoping to reduce waiting lists with the introduction of a brand new cardiac diagnostic service.

Bill Pym, IHEEM’s chief executive, is retiring, and a party, attended by many Institute past and present officers and members, was recently held for him – his departure from IHEEM is expected to be shortly after this year’s Healthcare Estates Conference and Exhibition at Harrogate in November.

The new HTM 01 on disinfection and sterilisation is being published and is the first update of the guidance for over 10 years.

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Cost allocation for FM services in hospitals, and the monitoring of quality of maintenance services, were examined in two papers prepared for the 19th Congress of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering.

With massive changes affecting the NHS landscape, IHEEM could either sink as other institutions encroach on its ground, or swim on a tide of expansion.

Currie & Brown, one of the UK’s leading specialist consultancies in the healthcare PFI sector, has reached financial close for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s £180 million Victoria and Stobhill Hospitals project.

The new HTM 01 on disinfection and sterilisation is being published and is the first update of the guidance for over 10 years.

Lancashire-based Progress Care Housing Association and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have reached a milestone in their multimillion pound drive to improve accommodation for the Trust’s staff.

Electronic water control specialists ECO-Logic UK has just completed a project at Malcolm Arnold House, a 48-bed secure mental health facility at St Andrews Hospital in Northampton.

Marshall-Tufflex has been helping with the Africa Mercy Ship’s refit at Tyneside by providing the vessel with specific cable management solutions as pictured above.

A nationwide campaign entitled Food Watch is to discover patient and visitor views on hospital food.

In response to the announcement that the Department of Health is to create Local Involvement Networks (LINks) to replace PPI Forums, the chair of the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH), Sharon Grant, has commented: “PPI Forums with their 5,000 members have achieved so much in a short timescale. Their impact has been felt throughout the entire NHS.

New arrangements for the supply and delivery of healthcare-related products to the NHS will save £1 billion, states the Department of Health which adds that this can be reinvested in frontline patient services.

A £30 million neighbourhood hospital in Cynon Valley, Wales, has been granted outline planning consent. The scheme, which has been designed by HLM Architects for the North Glamorgan NHS Trust, will provide primary care support for the residents of Rhondda Cynon Taf.

In a speech to the NHS in the North West, Health Minister Andy Burnham reiterated his continued determination to make improvements to patients’ environments a priority.

Among new members recently welcomed by IHEEM are Andrew Tweedie and Martin Goodway.

CurTec, the Netherlands-based manufacturers of high performance UN plastic drums and material handling solutions, has announced that Solent Plastics will be responsible for the sales of its CurTec range of plastic-lidded crates.

Railite is a new lighting solution which has been launched by Aura Corporation Ltd, manufacturers of Actulite Polarised Daylight Lighting and AuraTech Electronic LED Lighting.

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