RECENT NEWS

The Acorn consortium, led by developer and investor, Kajima, has submitted detailed plans for the new Velindre Cancer Centre in South Wales, which Kajima says will be ‘the UK’s most sustainable hospital’.

Work has started on the internal reconfiguration of Canvey Primary Care Centre (PCC) on Canvey Island in Essex ‘to provide multiple health and wellbeing services’, bringing care closer to home for local residents.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has opened an extended histopathology laboratory at the Royal Victoria Hospital as part of a five-year plan to improve facilities for staff and care for patients.

As the manufacturing industry struggles with rising energy costs and pressure to decarbonise, an energy solution which the proponents say ‘couldn’t come at a better time for businesses’ has been successfully installed at AMRC North West in Blackburn in Lancashire.

Imtech, a UK technical services engineering group jointly owned by EDF and Dalkia, has announced the acquisition of technical engineering services provider, SPIE UK, subject to the fulfilment of customary conditions and regulatory approvals.

An international awareness campaign to promote ‘the critical role of better building ventilation’ in supporting health, wellbeing, and productivity, has been launched by a coalition of scientists, academics, engineering bodies, and environmental activists.

Patients will benefit from more streamlined care, and be able to make more informed choices about how and where they access treatment, after plans to transform NHS data sharing were brought forward, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) says.

Employees from Wilmslow-based specialist in Modern Methods of Construction and fast-track building, MTX, are walking, running, and riding, over 1200 kms across Peru in a ‘virtual challenge’ to raise funds for Stockport County Football Club’s Community Trust Health & Well-Being Programme.

The findings of new research commissioned by NHS Property Services (NHSPS), and published today, 25 October, reveal what matters most to 10 different communities ‘disproportionately affected by health inequalities’ when they access and use repurposed NHS community spaces.

ModuleCo Healthcare (MCH) has handed over a new ophthalmic theatre – built using modern methods of construction – to St Mary’s Hospital in Newport on the Isle of Wight.

England’s health and care system is ‘gridlocked and unable to operate effectively’, according to the Care Quality Commission’s latest annual assessment, based on CQC inspection activity, information received from the public, and those who deliver care, ‘alongside other evidence’.

The team behind The Apollo Protocol white paper, which calls for a common language across digital twins, are to reveal details of how they will begin to set up The Apollo Forum at a live streamed launch event on 25 October.

A new £16 million Elective Surgical Hub at Hereford County Hospital has moved another step closer, with the design now submitted for planning approval.

Interfurn Medical Systems chose early October’s Healthcare Estates 2022 conference and exhibition to introduce its new name and brand, Medexs UK, to the healthcare estates and facilities management sector visitors attending the flagship annual IHEEM event.

The Government has announced that over £800 million of funding, to be allocated by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), will go to support specialist research facilities bringing together scientists to create an environment where experimental medicine and patient safety research can thrive.

Early October’s Healthcare Estates 2022 exhibition saw Bender UK highlight its recently introduced COMTRAXX CP9 24” glass theatre control panel, ‘a sleek and sophisticated method of controlling the entire operating theatre from a central location’.

A new medical gas alarm panel incorporating a ‘Call hospital engineer’ feature to summon help from healthcare engineering personnel should, for instance, gas pressure become concerningly low in any part of a hospital, was unveiled by Shire Controls at this year’s Healthcare Estates exhibition.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Commercial Procurement Services has awarded public sector specialist, Kingsfield IT, to its new National Framework Agreement, ‘to provide a sustainable and cost-effective method for extending the lifecycle of electronic devices to workers across the UK’.

BAM has completed what it says is the first rooftop helipad in the country with direct access to emergency services.

Monkwearmouth Development (MDL) – a joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine Capital Ventures (SRMCV) and Argon Property Development Solutions (APDS) – has been awarded the task of delivering a new entrance and ‘state-of-the-art’ office building at Monkwearmouth Hospital in Sunderland.