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The contract to deliver Royal Surrey County Hospital’s new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre in Guildford – which will offer ‘state-of-the-art’ facilities, and include six new operating theatres, has been awarded to Modern Methods of Construction specialist, MTX.

Healthcare engineers looking to get a better understanding of UPS systems in medical environments can learn about the latest guidance on the subject provided by HTM 06-01 in an hour-long free webinar hosted by Kohler Uninterruptible Power in conjunction with Health Estate Journal taking place at 1.00 p.m. on 18 March.

Carrier is expanding its apprenticeship programme in the UK, in a move that it says reaffirms its commitment to training highly skilled HVAC professionals and helping to bridge the skills gap in the industry.

A new ‘state-of-the-art’ modular mammography suite at Craigavon Area Hospital in Northern Ireland, created for the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, has opened following its construction by offsite manufacturer, McAvoy.

Schneider Electric, a specialist in ‘digital transformation of energy management and automation’, says Circle Health Group – a leading UK independent provider of private hospital services, has saved over £200,000 since 2018, and solved 81 per cent of ‘maintenance tickets’ remotely, by working with it.

Northumberland-headquartered Merit, an industrialised construction and digital manufacturing specialist, has been appointed by the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to design and deliver a new Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit on site at Bedford Hospital.

Mott MacDonald is to help drive forward plans for a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn following its appointment as mechanical, electrical, and public health engineers on the project.

Consistency in healthcare design isn’t just about aesthetics – it’s about creating environments that actively support infection prevention, simplify maintenance, and enhance operational efficiency. Trovex’s ‘One Product Family, One Hygienic Finish’ philosophy embodies this vision, providing seamless solutions that meet the unique demands of modern healthcare facilities.

Scarborough Hospital, in collaboration with academics from the Universities of Birmingham and York, has been awarded national funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to fund research to establish how urgent and emergency care could be improved for patients living in rural coastal areas.

An ambitious £24.1 m Net Zero project at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Horton General Hospitals, part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH), which is seeing both healthcare facilities 'de-steamed’, is due to complete later this year.

GPs in England have saved almost £3 million on their healthcare waste bills thanks to the intervention of technology provided by leading independent healthcare waste management company, Anenta, the company says.

The Northumbria Health and Care Academy – on the site of the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington, is the UK’s first healthcare building to achieve Gold WELL Certification from the International WELL Building Institute.

Facility Monitoring Systems (FMS), which provides contamination control solutions, has joined Trescal, ‘a global leader in calibration services’, in what the former describes as ‘a significant milestone’ for it.

NHSPS has announced the completion of a new community diagnostic centre in Preston.

The investment comes from the NHS England Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) Programme – £1.6 million specifically allocated for NHS Property Services sites. The initiative aims to optimise existing freehold properties and land, create new diagnostic facilities and ‘ultimately deliver excellent patient care’.

Corporate services provider, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), has unveiled a £500 m framework agreement designed to help public sector organisations – including the NHS – decarbonise their estates.

CIAT UK has reinforced its call for the new UK government to prioritise indoor air quality (IAQ) in forthcoming legislation, citing findings from a recent Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) event held on the third World Ventilation Day.

Work is progressing on an £11 million project at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, aimed at modernising and expanding the hospital's Emergency Department.

Work has completed on a £1 million skin surgery and dermatology clinic in Gateshead, designed by Medical Architecture for private provider, Skin Surgery Clinic, which is said to offer ‘hospital-grade’ facilities in a ‘bespoke, patient-focused environment.’

In one of his first duties since his formal installation at Aston University’s first winter graduation ceremony on 20 January, the University’s new Chancellor, Dr Jason Wouhra, has opened a £1.5 m healthcare teaching facility at the University which includes two interconnecting five-bed wards and an interactive immersive room.

Nuffield Health has chosen to retain Sodexo UK and Ireland for its food services for an additional five years from 2028, following an initial five-year contract extension awarded in 2023.