RECENT NEWS

The trade body for Britain’s pest control industry says tackling issues with vermin in hospitals will become a greater challenge, ‘due to legislation affecting control methods in the sector’.

Royal Bolton Hospital will be ‘transforming’ its Emergency Department throughout 2025, with the plans including creating a new ambulance handover area and a new modern waiting room to help with demand.

Philips has partnered with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to deliver a new ‘cutting-edge’ Interventional Radiology Suite at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford (see photo), in a move that the two organisations say ‘promises a significant boost to patient care, clinical efficiency, and both operational and financial sustainability’.

The official launch of a new Standard for building safety was held today (1 May) at the House of Lords, at an event hosted by his Lordship the Earl of Lindsay (pictured).

Brandon Medical welcomed Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, to its Leeds headquarters recently, to officially launch the region’s £160 m Investment Zone – ‘a transformative initiative designed to position West Yorkshire at the forefront of investment healthcare innovation’.

Rockwool has secured approval for its first planning submission for a new manufacturing facility that the stone wool product specialist says would support ‘hundreds of jobs’ in the West Midlands.

ModuleCo says it has ‘reached a major milestone’ in the delivery of the new Community Diagnostic Centre, known as the North Kent CDC, at Livingstone Community Hospital in Dartford.

The completion of two advanced healthcare facilities at Southampton's Adanac Health and Innovation Campus, ‘marks a significant step forward in improving regional healthcare services’, the project partners say.

The simple act of looking at a piece of visual art can boost wellbeing, a new research study has found – with the benefit gained just as much in a hospital setting as in an art gallery.

Gleeds has been named project manager for the ‘billion-pound redevelopment’ of Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on behalf of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting (pictured), has announced what he dubbed ‘a comprehensive support package to tackle violence and improve the working lives of NHS staff’.

The development of the University of Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Campus (NHIC) recently reached a significant stage, with a topping out ceremony for the Emily Siddon Building (pictured), which is currently under construction by Kier Construction.

Prime has been appointed as the Commercial Developer Partner for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust following a competitive tender process.

Offsite manufacturer, McAvoy, has been awarded a contract to deliver a two-storey modular CSSD building at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn.

Allianz Engineering has introduced a new inspection service for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

New Jersey-headquartered, The Clarient Group, which describes itself as ‘a leader in smart building consulting and technology engineering’, has joined architecture, engineering, and design firm, CannonDesign.

The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has launched its vision for ‘Future Paget’, showing the latest designs for its new hospital in Great Yarmouth, and where it will be situated on the hospital’s estate.

A webinar to be held by MRI Software in association with Health Estate Journal at 11.00 am on 1 May will focus on ‘the significant challenges the NHS faces in estate and facilities management due to fragmented systems, manual data collection, and inefficiencies’.

Roads, railways, schools, and hospitals, will be delivered more efficiently as the government ‘gets a grip’ on vital infrastructure delays, and ‘goes further and faster to kickstart economic growth and improve the lives of working people across the country’, with the recent announcement of the creation of the new National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA).

VES, which supplies and manufactures air-handling, heat recovery, and supply and extract units for public, commercial, and industrial buildings across the UK, has announced the recent addition of Ben and Will Peters as shareholders and directors of its holding company, Ventilating Equipment Supply Holdings.