RECENT NEWS

NHS hospitals across England made over £120 million from car park charges in 2015/2016, an investigation has found.

The Healthcare sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland – the UK’s largest food and support services firm – will be providing retail services to Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as part of a new 15-year contract worth an estimated £25.5 million overall.

German Chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel, and Tarek Al-Wazir, Minister of Economics, Energy, Transportation, and Regional Development of the state of Hesse, have opened the Viessmann Innovation Centre, the Viessmann Group’s new € 50 million technological research and development centre in Allendorf in Germany.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is offering up to £30,000 in funding for creative projects that engage the public with engineers and engineering.

Entries for the 2017 CIBSE ASHRAE Graduate of the Year and CIBSE Employer of the Year prizes, which celebrate ‘the industry’s best examples of young engineering talent’, and ‘employers’ strategies for recruiting, nurturing, and empowering young people’, must be received by 1 August.

Lanes Group has undertaken a major drainage surveying and cleaning programme as part of a £38 million refurbishment scheme at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

A ‘state-of-the-art’ healthcare facility has won first place in the public health and education category in the biennial Architectural Ironmongery Specification Awards, organised by the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Medical Air Technology (MAT) continues to grow, welcoming Will Evans to the team as Business Development Manager.

Intastop says its ‘next generation’ SECURAHinge Continuous Geared Hinge is designed to decrease maintenance, allowing heavy doors to be safely fitted, since weight is distributed across the hinge’s entirety, preventing buckling, which can result in faulty doors.

Proton Partners International has agreed a two-year collaborative research project with The University of Liverpool to enhance proton beam therapy (PBT) technology via a new measurement system, 3D Water Phantom, developed to further improve the accuracy of PBT treatment.

G4S has secured a major healthcare contract with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

The City and County of Swansea Council, in partnership with Abertawe Bro-Morgannwg University Health Board, has commissioned specialist healthcare advisors, IBI Group, to work on the feasibility of a new Wellness Centre in the city.

Kawneer architectural glazing systems were used on the UK’s nineteenth and largest Maggie’s cancer care centre.

Outsourced decontamination and sterilisation services specialist, IHSS, has introduced new services ‘to meet the changing needs of the healthcare sector for flexible endoscope reprocessing’.

New guidance to help facilities managers manage the transition to ‘agile working’ within their organisation has been published by the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM).

Horbury Group, a 1,000-strong Group providing construction solutions to developers, building owners, and main contractors UK-wide, has established a new trading company – Horbury Property Services – dedicated to providing facilities management, maintenance, and refurbishment.

Members of IHEEM’s South West Branch were the first to hear a new presentation put together by Static Systems entitled ‘Nurse Call Systems – should I go wired or wireless?’, given at a recent Branch technical meeting at Gleeds’ Bristol office.

Kohler Mira has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation for its Mira Flight Safe anti-slip range of shower trays, which incorporate two integral finishes – Mira Safe anti-slip and the anti-bacterial, BioCote – that will reportedly ‘never wear or peel off or wash away’.

Novus Property Solutions has helped reconnect two parts of the site at Royal Stoke University Hospital via an extensive elevated walkway repair.

Sluice room solutions specialist, DDC Dolphin, has appointed James Smith as International Business development director as it – as the company puts it – moves closer towards its ‘ambitious global growth plans’ within the healthcare market.