RECENT NEWS

BeaconMedaes UK came out top in two categories at this year’s IHEEM Healthcare Estates Awards in Manchester.

Healthcare infrastructure specialist, Archus, has been re-appointed as the lead supplier to NHS England for the delivery of the next phase of the NHS Estates Technical Standards and Guidance Programme.

Patients and staff on the major trauma ward at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south London, are now benefitting from more efficient facilities following a refurbishment project by multi-disciplinary consultancy, Pick Everard.

The Holdsworth Ward has undergone operational and spatial improvements, including upgraded sanitary facilities, bedhead services, and infrastructure elements. Pick Everard completed full RIBA Stage 1-6 delivery covering architecture, structural engineering, design management, health and safety services (CDM), and clerk of works.

Pharmacierge, a leading e-Prescription medtech business for private clinicians, has announced a ‘substantial’ expansion in London’s Wimpole Street, set to create central London’s largest robotically-enabled dispensary.

Morgan Sindall Construction has completed a new 964-space multi-storey car Park (MSCP) at North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH), delivering £36.5m of enabling works ahead of the wider rebuilding of the estate, including temporary car parking, asbestos removal, demolition, and the new-build MSCP and Cycle Hub.

Modern Methods of Construction specialist, MTX, says the new £12.5 m endoscopy unit built by it for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH) ‘is being recognised as an outstanding example of combining offsite design and advanced construction techniques with collaborative working’.

Construction clients are more focused on meeting their Net Zero goals than complying with the Building Safety Act, a new study carried out on behalf of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) suggests.

The doors to what is reportedly the UK’s first carbon-neutral built community arena with a multi-purpose sports facility and integrated Medical Diagnostic Centre have opened this week in Sheffield.

A ‘state-of-the-art’ independent private hospital specialising in cosmetic and plastic surgery has been completed at Granton on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

Scientists at Europe’s largest biomedical research facility, the Sir Francis Crick Institute, are protecting sensitive laboratory equipment with ABB technology.

CIAT chillers and heat pumps have been installed at James Paget University Hospital’s new £15 million modular ward in Norfolk, a facility that James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says ‘will help shape construction of future NHS hospitals in the UK’.

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Southern Home Counties business has celebrated completion on its development work at Shoreham’s Southlands Hospital for University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UH Sussex).

A ‘milestone moment’ has been reached in the Midlands as £100 m building work on The Harborne Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK, has completed.

A ‘cutting-edge pathology’ laboratory at Leeds’s St James’ University Hospital designed to serve patients across West Yorkshire has been officially opened by the Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care, Will Quince.

Develop, ‘one of the UK’s leading accredited providers’ of compliance, technical, and safety training, has unveiled its ‘new look’ training centre in Derby following an extensive refurbishment.

The expansion of global modular building specialist, Volumetric Building Companies, continues with the opening of its first operation in Ireland, which it says will be an international centre of excellence for MMC to serve Irish, UK, European, and global markets.

Designed by Avanti Architects, and located within the hospital's award-winning Acute Services Block, the new Ulster Hospital Emergency Department has opened its doors to the public.

Lexica, a specialist consultancy supporting health and life sciences organisations in the UK and internationally, has appointed Yogesh Luhar as Associate Director to its Property Consultancy team.

Unite, one of Britain’s leading trade unions, has called on all NHS organisations to urgently establish a risk register for reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) that may have been used in buildings across the NHS estate.

For the first time, the UK will have a National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), following Government approval for the plans announced on 21 September.