RECENT NEWS

A ‘major milestone’ has been reached in a key project to transform and modernise critical care and assessment buildings and services at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton.

A £6 m project which the protagonists say will ‘transform the way that schools and healthcare facilities are built’ has been granted £2.9 m of funding ‘to showcase the future of modern methods of construction (MMC)in the UK.

IDEXX, reportedly the global leader in rapid microbiological testing for water, has announced that its Legiolert culture testing method for Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila), has been accepted by the UK’s Standing Committee of Analysts.

A new £500 million procurement framework has been launched by NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) to offer high-quality soft facilities management services to the NHS and wider public sector.

After declaring the Government’s intention to deliver ‘Project Speed’, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was welcomed by healthcare construction company, MTX, to its latest £12 million, 72-bed, fast-track ward project at Hereford County Hospital.

Eastwood Park – which has recently welcomed back learners, says that, unsurprisingly – given the crucial role that oxygen has played in treating patients with COVID-19 – medical gas training has proven especially popular.

Specialist consultancy, ETL, has announced the appointment of Jonathan French to the position of managing director and executive director of Client Services.

An award-winning Royal Academy of Engineering programme to boost the employment prospects of engineering graduates from diverse backgrounds has resulted in at least 250 engineering employment opportunities over the last five years.

How nurse call technologies have evolved, and ‘how they came to the fore during the height of the pandemic’, will be among topics discussed in an HEJ webinar presented by Dave Hewitt, Sales & Marketing director at Courtney Thorne, on 20 August.

Cheshire-based modular construction company, ModuleCo Healthcare (MCH), has delivered a new modular sterile services department at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, which is part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

Independent construction and infrastructure consultancy, Pick Everard, has been awarded a £5 m programme of backlog maintenance works under the framework for healthcare facilities in the Midlands owned by NHS Property Services.

Building Services Now (BSN) has worked closely and collaboratively with Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust to provide alterations and improvements to the existing hospital facilities at Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich.

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched a new procurement framework to help public sector organisations access technology that supports social distancing in the workplace.

Following the announcement that the ‘live’ 2020 Healthcare Estates event has been deferred until 2021, IHEEM and Step Exhibitions are running a series of digital events under the banner of ‘Stay Connected, Keep Informed, Get Ahead'.

Registration is now open for the first in a new series of webinars – which takes place on 20 July – to be presented by leading product and technology suppliers to the sector in association with Health Estate Journal over coming months.

A Greater Manchester-based manufacturer and supplier of laboratory and medical equipment says it has ‘risen to an unprecedented challenge to assist in the frontline fight against COVID-19’, while simultaneously forging ahead with ambitious growth.

Claire Ryan, an Estates officer at mental health / disability services provider, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, has become the first female winner of a regional award which recognises her commitment to the study of construction.

Modular construction specialist, Darwin Group, has completed the first of three new ward buildings for NHS Trusts across Britain – at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, with the other two set to be finished this month.

Kier has been appointed by the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to deliver a new £97.1 m Ambulatory Care and Diagnostics Centre (ACAD), procured through the P22 framework, at Heartlands Hospital in Bordesley Green East.

Following the installation of a Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution, comprising an Ultra Fast Scanner and Image Management System, pathologists working at the University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock are to have access to remote diagnostics.