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Medical Air Technology (MAT) recently completed the refurbishment of a pre-existing operating theatre complex at Bedford Hospital, upgrading both theatres 3 and 4 with the addition of ECO-flow™ Dynamic ultraclean ventilation (UCV) systems.

Medical Air Technology (MAT) has completed the refurbishment of a pre-existing operating theatre complex at Bedford Hospital, upgrading both theatres 3 and 4 with the addition of ECO-flow Dynamic ultraclean ventilation (UCV) systems.

The new ultraclean theatres will allow the hospital to increase its orthopaedic output and expand its range of surgeries. MAT was appointed directly by the hospital, winning the contract in a competitive tender with a submission that the company says showed it ‘offered not only the best equipment package and shortest delivery period, but also the best overall understanding of the project’.

Following the launch today (14 January) of the Government's Clean Air Strategy 2019, air pollution and air filtration specialist, Camfil, says it welcomes its recognition of the effect of indoor air quality (IAQ) on people's health.

Plans to develop a ‘world-leading’ cancer research hub in south London have taken a major step forward, with the completion of the final stage in a £30 million investment in land.

RSK Group, which claims to be the UK’s leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business, has announced its latest acquisition – design, property, and construction consultancy, Pellings – the ninth acquisition that RSK, a privately owned company with 36 international offices, over 2,700 staff, and an annual turnover of £200 m, has made in the 2018/2019 financial year.

A UK company, Pellings employs around 125 staff, with an annual turnover of £12.5 million and four offices in London and south-east England.

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UCL, and Moorfields Eye Charity, have announced that AECOM, Penoyre & Prasad, and White Arkitekter, have been appointed to design their proposed new centre for eye care, research, and education in London under a scheme proposal called Oriel.

The appointment follows a ‘comprehensive’ six-month long RIBA-led competition process.

Oriel is a joint proposal from Moorfields Eye Hospital, UCL, and Moorfields Eye Charity to relocate all services from Moorfields Eye Hospital on City Road and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology on Bath Street to a new, purpose-built facility at a preferred site at St Pancras Hospital.

An Isle of Man hospice has enhanced its bedside cable management by using the Cable Koala, a new magnetic cable tie from HellermannTyton.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge are using microencapsulation technologies developed by Dolomite Microfluidics to develop ‘self-healing’ construction materials.

Architectural product specialist, Hunter Douglas Architectural, has supplied its leading solid wood linear ceiling for a new £40 million hospital in London that has replaced buildings dating back to the Second World War.

Spire Healthcare has installed Vernacare’s ‘innovative new’ Vernacare Compact single-use toileting and cleansing waste disposal technology at its newly refurbished extended recovery unit at Spire Norwich Hospital.

Static Systems Group has been awarded the contract to supply and install nurse call systems and bedhead services trunking at the new £350 million Grange University Hospital in South Wales, designed by architects, BDP.

Confirmation of the extra £20.5 billion more in ‘real-terms’ annual funding for the NHS by 2023-2024 announced last June – including at least £2 billion annually for mental health, and an end to the current PFI model, were among the notable elements impacting on health and social care in Chancellor Philip Hammond’s 2018 Budget Speech delivered on 29 October.

Eric Wright Health and Care, working in partnership with Wigan Council and Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), has commenced the construction of a new £4 million health centre in Ashton in Makerfield, Wigan, in Greater Manchester, on the site of the former town hall.

More NHS patients will be cared for at home and in their community to avoid them going into or staying in hospital unnecessarily, the Prime Minister, Theresa May, has announced, as she pledged to cut ‘needless’ hospital admissions and help inpatients return home sooner – through community-based ‘rapid response teams’, and dedicated support for care home residents.

Eastwood Park, the long-established engineering, estates, and facilities management training centre, this year celebrates 50 years of delivering training.

The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, a ‘world-class’ biological research facility that conducts studies into the basic biology of cancer, has streamlined maintenance of its steam systems with the help of Spirax Sarco, in the process ‘mitigating outstanding risk’ and freeing up in-house resource within its Facilities team to focus on other activities.

The NHS Long Term Plan, launched on 7 January, sets out how the £20.5 billion budget settlement for the NHS, announced by the Prime Minister last summer, will be spent over the next five years, and includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes, and dementia cases, as well as to provide better access to mental health services for adults and children.

Hospitals across England are delivering 81 projects to provide improvements this winter using money from a £420 million Winter Fund.

A new publication from BSRIA – Building Services Analytics – BG 75/2018 – is designed to raises awareness and provide guidance to building owners and all those involved in the design, construction, and operation of buildings and building services on how the correct capture and analysis of data can be used to drive improvement in building performance.

The first phase of plans to transform the King’s Hall heritage site in south Belfast to a Health and Wellbeing Campus has been granted approval by Belfast City Council.