RECENT NEWS

Housing is ‘a critical part of the current NHS staffing crisis’, and surplus NHS land should be used to deliver homes for health and social care workers to support staff retention and recruitment, according to a White Paper launched this week.

Staff at Leeds Cancer Centre are celebrating the ‘official opening’ of a new MRI simulator from Philips UK & Ireland which the supplier says will ‘revolutionise’ radiotherapy treatment at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Traka, a provider of ‘intelligent’ key and asset management solutions, has unveiled new technology that it says should help healthcare facilities ‘streamline the fault-fixing process for critical medical equipment’.

Vital Energi is working with York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to reduce the carbon footprint of York Teaching Hospital via the implementation of low-carbon energy solutions, helping the Trust work towards its goal of Net Zero by 2040.

McLaren Construction has won the £28 million contract to build the St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch, bringing together primary care, mental health, and prevention services, along with cancer care and dialysis, in purpose-built premises.

Approval has been given for a new medical centre offering diagnostic care close to home for patients in Tameside and Stockport.

His Royal Highness Prince William, The Prince of Wales, has formally opened the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s new Oak Cancer Centre in Sutton, Surrey.

Cylera, which claims to be a global leader in healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence solutions, has partnered with Oman’s first and largest integrated telecommunications services provider, Omantel.

Washroom product manufacturer for the commercial and healthcare sectors, Armitage Shanks, is offering free on-site training on the use and maintenance of its Markwik taps to NHS Trusts across the country.

As the sector gears up to celebrate this year’s International Women in Engineering Day on 23 June, EngineeringUK has released a new report, 'Rapid Evidence Review - Interventions to increase girls’ aspirations for engineering and technology careers', which it says ‘brings together the available evidence on interventions that aim to increase girls’ aspirations for engineering and technology careers’.

As the UK ramps up its focus on becoming a Net Zero economy, a new report commissioned by EngineeringUK finds that demand for engineers is predicted to grow faster than for other occupations, and that vacancies for ‘green engineering’ roles in the UK have increased by more than half (55%) over the past five years.

A ‘unique’ bench designed by Cumbrian architectural blacksmith, Chris Brammall, of CB Arts, has been installed in a public garden at The Mater Infirmorum Hospital in Belfast as a ‘thank you’ for the outstanding efforts of medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic from Bender Ireland, a key supplier to hospitals.

New pictures of the fully completed £500 m facility at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton have been released, just ahead of the building taking its first inpatients this week.

A complete Gradus wall protection package has been installed at the 3Ts development (Trauma, Teaching and Tertiary care) for the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.

The Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust has recently opened to learners two new ‘hi-tech’ training centres at the city’s Freeman Hospital and Eldon Court, Newcastle.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has updated the Grease Hygiene training courses that it says ‘underpin professional standards in the ventilation hygiene sector’.

Fortius Clinic, the private orthopaedic group ‘renowned for treating professional sportspeople’, has acquired what it dubs ‘a state-of-the-art’ orthopaedic and spinal hospital to create the UK’s largest single specialty Centre of Excellence in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in the heart of London.

A new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) is currently in development in Coventry and – NHS Property Services (NHSPS) says – will provide a wide range of diagnostic services ‘much closer to home’.

Join the growing community of healthcare professionals who have chosen KLS Martin operating lights distributed by Starkstrom at over 250 hospitals in the UK.

Tony Lowther has been appointed manage director at commercial roofing specialist, BriggsAmasco, following many years’ successful service with the business.