RECENT NEWS

Chief Executive of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation, Dr Richard Kirby, has been given an honorary doctorate (DSc) from Aston University in recognition of his significant contribution to healthcare leadership.

Representatives from NHS Property Services (NHSPS) attended a recent ground-breaking ceremony held recently to mark an important milestone for a new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) in Hinckley, Leicestershire, set to open in early 2025.

Carrier has officially opened a new training academy at its Bracknell service and rentals depot, reinforcing its dedication to training, and ‘inspiring the next generation of engineers and technicians while helping to address the skills gap in the HVAC sector’.

NHS Property Services (NHSPS) has acquired and fitted out a new ambulance base in Warrington for Connect North West – a neonatal transportation service, delivered by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network, and St John Ambulance.

Thanet District Council in Kent’s Planning Committee has recently voted unanimously to give outline planning permission to the long-awaited Thanet Health Campus, which developer, Quinn Estates, says will deliver a ‘once-in-a-generation’ project for the local area.

Eurofins Food & Water Testing UK has acquired Isopharm Laboratory, a ‘premier provider of accredited testing services across the UK healthcare decontamination and validation market’.

Glasgow-based software specialist, Simul8, is working with NHS Boards and Trusts on process optimisation initiatives ranging from patient scheduling in oncology units to patient flow through fertility departments, modelling maternity services, and optimising trauma and orthopaedic wards.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have launched a design competition to appoint an architect to design the new Fleming Centre building at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London.

‘Digitising fire safety compliance in healthcare estates’ will be the title of a free-to-attend webinar presented by Tom Ford, Honeywell’s National Business Development Manager for Connected Life Safety Services (CLSS) in the UK & Ireland (pictured), being held at 11.00 am on Wednesday 17 July in association with Health Estate Journal.

UV Smart, a specialist in ‘next-generation’ disinfection technology, is setting its sights on the UK healthcare sector, following a successful trial in the NHS and ‘ strong take-up’ in the global healthcare market for its UV solutions to decontaminate medical devices and equipment.

Bouygues UK has been appointed by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as lead contractor for the design and build of the new Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, and demolition of the current MRI building at the hospital has commenced.

Procurement organisation and social enterprise, Fusion21, has announced the suppliers successfully appointed to its national Lifts Framework, which is worth up to £80 million over four years.

Tamara Karim (pictured) has been appointed as the new Social Value manager at modular healthcare building and hospital construction specialist, MTX Contracts.

Two of the UK’s major building services engineering organisations have agreed to work more closely ‘to ensure progress on several key initiatives’, including the push for Net Zero in the built environment, and the delivery of the Building Safety Act.

A close to £1 m fire safety system upgrade at Newham University Hospital has won fire installation specialist, M&G Fire Protection, a ‘highly accredited’ fire system installation company, the award for ‘Fire Safety Installation Company of the Year’ at the 2024 Fire & Security Matters awards.

Hedge End, Southampton-based manufacturer and supplier of commercial and industrial floorcare machines, Truvox International, has refreshed its brand, launched a new website, opened a new showroom and training centre, and is ‘making a major investment in people’.

UK nurse call solutions provider, Wandsworth Healthcare, has entered into a collaboration with DNV Imatis, a leading Scandinavian digital healthcare solutions provider, to – as it puts it – ‘help NHS Trusts enhance the digital patient journey, and deliver more efficient, patient-centred, and data-driven healthcare’.

Almost a third (29%) of NHS Trusts in England are still not measuring their carbon footprint, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) data released by Schneider Electric – the specialist in the digital transformation of energy management and automation.

Ascom has won a tender to implement its Alerts and Notification Management System (ANMS) at the new children’s hospital in Dublin as part of a five-year partnership with Children’s Health Ireland (CHI).

To bring complex interventional procedures in-house and increase patient throughput, Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert has installed the Alphenix Sky+, making it Scotland’s first hospital in to benefit from Canon Medical’s most advanced ceiling-mounted imaging system.