RECENT NEWS

University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock in south-west Scotland has installed two new AI-assisted CT scanners into its Medical Imaging Department 'to future-proof diagnostic imaging services for local and regional patients'.

Microban International has launched LapisShield, a novel, non-heavy-metal technology designed to ‘seamlessly integrate antimicrobial functionality into any water-based coating formulation’.

The £400 million nation-wide ‘dormitory elimination’ initiative is making progress in Worcestershire, as the programme strives to improve the quality of mental health wards in hospitals.

BAM’s UK & Ireland businesses have set an ambitious carbon target to become Net Zero in their direct operations by 2026, and are ruling out counting electricity from green energy tariffs towards their Net Zero emissions.

As the NHS works towards being carbon-neutral by 2045, NTH Solutions, an NHS subsidiary of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, has piloted an ‘intelligent thermostat’ – Coolnomix – that attaches to air-conditioning units to help improve their efficiency.

Modular building specialist, Portakabin, has completed two specialist theatres to boost capacity at East Grinstead’s Queen Victoria Hospital, complete with a central plant room, following consultation with the Trust’s team.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has unveiled the shortlists for its national apprenticeship and outstanding achievement awards, with the winners to be announced as part of the Association’s relaunched and revamped National Awards on 20 October in London.

Rockwool says its new NyRock Cavity Slab 032 provides specifiers with a low lambda, non-combustible stone wool slab for full and partial fill masonry cavities that enables a thinner wall construction.

Mobilize Power Solutions, an electric vehicle charging specialist and part of Renault Group, has partnered with Connected Energy to offer customers a solution to locate battery energy storage units at EV charging sites.

VPS Group, the property protection specialist, has confirmed the acquisition of Nexus National Security Network, a UK ‘security outsourcing expert’.

Following the success of its authorised distributor partnership with Kohler, WB Power Services has announced the expansion of the arrangement, which now gives the critical power provider exclusive rights to service all data centres in England, Scotland, and Wales.

Kier has been appointed by Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust and East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust to deliver a new integrated health hub in Bakewell in Derbyshire for people living in the town and the Derbyshire Dales.

A new Interventional Radiology suite within the Radiology Department at Wrexham Maelor Hospital will help reduce the number of scans that patients need before a procedure.

Experts from the University of Stirling have created a new tool which they say was developed ‘to support families, businesses, and professionals, to make homes, premises, and public places, more accessible to an ageing population and those living with dementia’.

A ‘virtual reality dome’ that allows people to experience the new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre that will be built at University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP), has been installed at the Trust’s Derriford Hospital site in Plymouth.

Liverpool-based Avrenim has been awarded contracts with key clients including Warrington & Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool City Council and the University of Salford.

Specialist in healthcare ICT and mobile workflow solutions, Ascom UK - whose ‘healthcare solutions’ include nurse call, alarm management, silent ward and mobile solutions – has announced the appointment of Paul McCann as Managing Director for the UK and Ireland.

Eastwood Park says it has delivered ‘world-class training’ for over 50 years.

Two Devon-based entrepreneurs have developed a touch-free sanitising station which they say ‘reduces the consumption of single-use plastic bottles and messy alcohol gels’, with the support of HSBC UK funding.

The award-winning pipework manufacturing company, Water Kinetics, has announced a ‘strategic supply partnership’ with the SANHA group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of press fit-pipe systems.