RECENT NEWS

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.

More than 100 fire safety professionals from NHS Trusts across the country took part in what was reportedly the first ever NHS Estates Fire Safety Forum, hosted by Specialist Door Solutions on 16 January.

Thousands of patients across North East London are set to benefit from new initiative, using artificial intelligence (AI) and personalised clinical coaching, easing pressure on NHS services.

The St Austell Elective Surgical Hub has officially opened its doors, in what the facility’s constructor, ModuleCo, says ‘marks a significant step forward in providing accessible, high-quality healthcare for residents across Cornwall’.

VPS Group, which claims to be Europe’s leading temporary security specialist, has acquired Davis Site Security, a fast-growing security company that protects blue chip customers’ construction sites with monitored video technology and manned guarding.

The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (the Coalition), in collaboration with Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), is launching a new national awareness initiative to reduce and re-use plastics in healthcare settings, in a three-year project funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

The Government has confirmed funding and what it describes as ‘a realistic timetable to put the New Hospital Programme on track to deliver all of its hospital projects’.

SHJ Medical & Lab Gas Specialists, a long-established supplier of medical and lab gas pipeline systems and services, has announced the promotion of Ben Slawinski to the role of Plant & Service manager.

Data scientists and clinical researchers in Scotland are working with high street opticians for what is reportedly the first time to develop a digital tool that can predict a person’s risk of dementia from a routine eye test.

Pinpoint, a leading UK provider of staff alarm systems to high-risk workplaces, has seen its P2 System installed in what is reportedly the UK’s first safe drug consumption facility, The Thistle, at the Hunter Street Health and Care Centre in Glasgow.