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'Tens of thousands' of elderly and vulnerable people will receive ‘tailored support at home’ as part of a new NHS plan to improve waiting times for emergency care, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced.

Sam Parry has returned to Cumbria-headquartered Bender UK as the company’s Key Accounts and Clinical Sales manager.

He explains that after three and a half years of working in healthcare sales for Europe, he was keen to return to the specialist in electrical safety, resilience, and power solutions to support its ‘substantial growth’ within the UK healthcare sector.

Regional contractor, Speller Metcalfe, has started work on the new £5 m Shifnal and Priorslee Medical Practice in Shropshire, which will house a number of healthcare specialists, and provide ‘state-of-the-art’ medical care, doctors’ offices, and a dentist.

Health Spaces is working to build a new hospital ward at the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston near Great Yarmouth for use both as a Concept Ward to trial principles related to the New Hospital Programme (NHP), and as decant ward while the Trust continues a programme of precautionary remedial works to the hospital roof in ward areas.

Modular construction specialist, Wernick Buildings, has recently built, delivered, and installed, a new modular ward building at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple in just 20 weeks form receipt of order.

Work to restore the Grade I listed buildings at the heart of Britain’s oldest hospital will begin this summer, thanks to a multi-million pound Lottery grant.

Indoor air company, Halton Marine Oy, has become the 100% shareholder in the UK-based damper and fire damper designer and manufacturer, Flamgard Calidair.

Medical Air Technology (MAT) – with its extensive experience in laboratory and cleanroom construction – was recently brought in as main contractor when The University of Warwick sought to expand its laboratory infrastructure with three new Containment Level 3 (CL3) suites.

“It is with much sorrow and deepest regret that Atus Systems (an IHEEM Company Affiliate Member) must pass on the incredibly sad news of the death of our friend and MD, Darren Swindlehurst, who unexpectedly passed away at home on 2 January,” says the company’s Operations manager, Alex Tomlinson.

SFG20, the ‘industry-definitive standard for building maintenance specifications’, has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud 13 online framework, which helps public sector buyers procure software and services from a list of pre-approved suppliers.

Construction of a new Acute Hospital Laboratory (AHL) has begun at the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI).

After several years of planning, and two years of construction, the new £97 million Heartlands Treatment Centre (HTC) – the first large-scale capital investment at Heartlands Hospital in East Birmingham since 2008 – has opened its doors and treated its first patient.

Accredited provider of compliance, technical, and safety training, Develop Training, is constructing a fully to-scale ‘artificial street’ in York to provide immersive, real-life training experiences within its replica buildings.

A planning application has been submitted for a new community hospital in Consett, designed by Medical Architecture for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, as part of Cohort 2 of the New Hospitals Programme.

Medstor Ireland recently worked with David Jordan Architects and main contractor, Titanium Developments, at the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin to provide catheter and general storage for the clinic’s impressive new dedicated electrophysiology (EP) laboratory.

Two ‘top-of-the-range’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted, spectral, wide-detector CT scanners will be supplied by Canon Medical Systems UK to Craigavon Area Hospital, part of Southern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland, for a £6.8 million ‘twin’ CT suite development.

Northumberland-headquartered offsite engineering and construction specialist in ‘technically complex, zero-carbon emissions buildings’, Merit, has announced a 4000m² factory expansion at its Cramlington site in Northumberland, to accommodate its plans for continued growth.

No one can have failed to notice the impact of rising energy prices over the last year, and with NHS budgets already more stretched, dealing with the impact of energy prices at historic highs and the lack of budget certainty has become a major challenge.

BeaconMedaes UK has been a trusted supplier to NHS and private hospitals for over 45 years and is owned by Atlas Copco, a well-established and world-leading provider of industrial productivity solutions with over 34,000 employees globally.

The West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) is urging businesses and industry professionals across the region to express interest in its latest project – to advance and grow the local medical drone industry.