RECENT NEWS

As a research programme into ‘green surgery’ in the UK NHS launches this autumn, the University of Birmingham is bringing together clinicians, policy-makers, and industry, for a major conference aimed at reducing the healthcare sector’s contribution to climate change.

Construction work has begun at Mount Gould Local Care Centre (LCC) in Plymouth to reconfigure space which – once complete – will house the Plym Neuro Rehabilitation Service.

Eastbourne District General Hospital (EDGH) has installed a new solar car park (SCP) and according to Veolia – which has worked with specialist, 3ti Solar Car Parks to create it – is the UK’s first hospital ‘to take this significant step’.

Looking back at a highly successful Healthcare Estates 2023 conference and exhibition in Manchester in October, PPL Training was pleased to be able to play its part in IHEEM’s 80th anniversary celebrations – including sponsoring, and speaking at, a special celebratory evening on 9 October – the eve of the show – at Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum.

Bupa’s Cromwell Hospital in London has become the UK’s first private hospital to buy SageTech Medical’s ‘innovative’ gas capture and recycling solution, as it puts it, ‘leading the way in preventing pollution from waste volatile anaesthetic gases’.

Secure I.T. Environments Ltd, a designer and builder of modular, containerised, and micro data centres, has completed a project for Poole Hospital to provide seven switch and data centre rooms serving operating theatres with fire suppression, protecting a total room volume of 840 m3.

Grundon Waste Management’s newly-launched inhaler recycling service has helped it win top honours with a Sustainability Award from the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA).

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) has installed ‘a cutting-edge’ solar photovoltaic canopy over the car park of its Wharfedale Hospital site in Otley.

Leading roofing contractor, BriggsAmasco, recently underlined its commitment to World Menopause Awareness Month by hosting a course for female staff to gain a better understanding of the issue.

The second annual World Ventilation Day (WV8D), to be held this year on 8 November, will draw a direct link between failure to invest in improving ventilation and serious health problems linked to buildings.

Buildings should be made to work better for social and economic reasons; not just to meet safety and climate change goals, according to the President of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).

Orri, a specialist clinic in London’s Harley Street Medical Area, has opened a new day treatment facility on Wimpole Street for patients seeking support for eating disorders.

Quintain, the award-winning developer behind Wembley Park, which is ‘transforming long-neglected space around the National Stadium into a vibrant new district of London’, has announced news of a new GP ‘super surgery’ to open at the new district’s heart.

In what it describes as ‘a strategic acquisition and a significant milestone’ for the business, OCS, the global facilities service provider, has acquired Accuro, ‘a UK provider of business-critical facilities management services to the education and healthcare sectors’.

As the time comes for many NHS Trusts to update their Green Plans, in line with the NHS’s concerted drive towards a Net Zero carbon service, how many are on track to deliver their stated objectives?

Rod Foot, who has extensive sales, product management, and business development experience in the security, healthcare, and fire and critical protection sectors, has joined Call Systems Technology (‘CST’).

Enigma Medical Solutions says it new ‘state-of-the-art’ general anaesthetic mobile surgical unit – named after the River Caldew in Cumbria, where the company’s co-founders have run a community-based surgical service for the last decade – is ready to address the current urgent need for additional surgical capacity.

Kohler Uninterruptible Power (KUP) has unveiled its plans for the Irish market as part of its ongoing corporate growth at a customer event at its new site at Baldonnell Business Park in Dublin.

Plans to develop the Dorset County Hospital (DCH) site in Dorchester – including building a brand-new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit – have been approved by Dorset Council.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has partnered with Cinos to provide and manage its new telephony and Unified Communications (UC) solution.