RECENT NEWS

Secure I.T. Environments, a design and build specialist for modular, containerised, and micro data centres, has completed an air-conditioning upgrade on the main ‘mission-critical’ data centre at London’s Royal Free Hospital.

Prime Minster, Keir Starmer, has pledged the ‘biggest reimagining of our NHS since its birth’ in a speech following the publication of ‘a full and independent investigation into the state of the NHS’.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and Croydon Health Services NHS Trust have appointed Assist Security Group (ASG) to provide security services.

Alder Hey’s CEO, Louise Shepherd CBE (pictured), will step down from her role in October to take up a new role as Regional director for NHS England’s North West Region, succeeding Richard Barker following his recent retirement.

A nurse and former hospital engineer’s joint solution to ‘messy storage’ of tubing and cables hung by patients’ beds is now available to buy, on the Walters Medical website.

‘Aiming to address specific-sector and regional challenges for customers’, Alan Dunne has been appointed to spearhead Aggreko’s growth strategy and innovation in the region.

Helvar, the international lighting technologies company specialising in intelligent and energy-saving lighting solutions, has announced that Kim Långström has officially assumed the role of CEO.

Leading the way in the UK and internationally, Eastwood Park delivers certificated training in healthcare engineering, estates, and facilities management for a range of NHS Trusts and private organisations.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed the publication of the final report into the Grenfell Tower tragedy, saying that it should ‘add greater urgency to promised reforms of the construction industry and related engineering disciplines’.

Contractor, Henry Brothers Construction, and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust have jointly held a turf-cutting ceremony to mark the start of work on site for a new Belper health centre.

RFiD Discovery, a leading UK provider of tracking solutions for healthcare, says its new Patient Discharge Management system is’ set to revolutionise how hospitals manage bed availability, offering a faster, more accurate solution that enhances patient care and operational efficiency’.

A ‘first-of-its-kind’ integrated care joint venture between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and NHS has now topped out, completing the first main phase of construction of new facility expected to be operational by Autumn 2026.

New research by the Health Foundation provides what the Foundation describes as ‘the first robust causal evidence’ that NHS surgical hubs increase treatment volumes and reduce the length of time patients spend in hospital.

Altro has published its latest sustainability report, providing a comprehensive overview of the company’s ongoing commitment to sustainable practices.

Infection prevention specialist, DDC Dolphin, has gained ISO 14001 accreditation – which it says will enable it to ‘further help hospitals and care homes to meet their environmental targets’.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) has partnered with Cinos to modernise its unified communications (UC) platform.

Equipment tracking, artificially intelligent CCTV, and voice-activated environmental controls, are just some of the technologies being trialled at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) to support plans to create a national centre of excellence for rehabilitation.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says it is ‘excited to announce a new milestone’ in the development of the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Mansfield Community Hospital site.

Newly released photos from Nottingham University Hospitals show the progress of the construction work on the expanded Neonatal Unit at the city’ Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), which is set to open in December.

Clinical engineering specialist, Avensys, has recently forged a ‘strategic partnership’ with Probo Medical to offer NHS and private hospitals a single provider of EBME and diagnostic imaging services.