RECENT NEWS

Staff working in mental healthcare sector should be better protected against assault in the future with the planned launch of a new partnership protocol by NHS Protect, the National Police Chiefs’ Council, and the Crown Prosecution Service, which will help the NHS, police, and CPS, ‘work together to respond to incidents of crime, investigate, and take appropriate cases forward for prosecution’.

Airflow Developments says its new Duplexvent Rotary ‘represents a significant advancement in the compact construction of a high performance mechanical ventilation with heat recovery system’.

BRE and CEEQUAL have announced plans to bring together two successful schemes – BREEAM and CEEQUAL – to create a single, science-based sustainability standard and certification tool for civil engineering and infrastructure projects in the UK and worldwide.

The influence of occupant behaviour on building performance was explored by psychologists and specialists in building use and adaptation at the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers’ (CIBSE) recent Building Performance Conference and Exhibition in London.

The NHS is to receive an additional £10 billion a year above inflation by 2020, ‘delivering in full the Five Year Forward View’, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced.

Amid considerable pressure from the medical community, his Autumn 2015 Spending Review also revealed that the government is to ‘frontload’ almost £6 billion by the first year of the Review.

Wireless nurse call specialist, Courtney-Thorne, has officially opened its new headquarters in Bournemouth, gearing up for future expansion by doubling its space.

‘An innovative solution to a difficult challenge’ is how Medical Air Technology (MAT) describes the latest version of its ‘unique’, self-contained lay-up cabinet.

BSRIA’s new White Paper on ‘Products and Systems for Generation Z in Reduced Carbon Buildings’ specifically asks ‘What products and systems will be used in reduced carbon buildings in the future by the ‘smart’ generation?

Seddons Plant & Engineers is offering ‘a complete package’ of equipment to deal with flooding in premises across the public sector.

Gleeds has been appointed as cost manager on the development of a new Unplanned Care Department and upgrade of the Accident & Emergency (A&E) reception at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, on behalf of Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Arcadis, the design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets, has unveiled a new, ‘refreshed’ brand identity, and will now go to market globally under one brand.

International engineering and project management consultancy, Royal HaskoningDHV, is partnering with architectural and engineering consortium, VK Réservoir A, on the construction of the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi, which is set, on its 2020 completion, to be one of the largest private hospitals in Frenchspeaking Belgium

Clovis Canopies has added a number of ‘interesting and distinctive styles’ to its range of canopies, shelters, and covered walkways.

A collaboration between Philips Healthcare and the LATCH Welsh Children’s Cancer Charity has resulted in the opening of ‘Latchmosphere’, a ‘one-of-a-kind’ multi-sensory imaging department at the Children’s Hospital for Wales in Cardiff – which provides ‘a calming, empowering experience’ for young people needing scans within an oncology imaging department, and incorporates the latest Philips AmbientExperience (AE) technology.

Safety continues to be the Care Quality Commission’s biggest concern across all the services it inspects, the Commission’s latest annual analysis of the quality of health and adult social care in England, The state of healthcare and adult social care in England 2014/15, reveals.

ISS UK has achieved recommendation for certification to the new Quality Management Standard – ISO 9001:2015

Eastwood Park Training has announced a formal partnership with Staffordshire University, marking the launch of two new Foundation Degrees and a BSc (Hons) Degree in 2016.

Ceiling systems from Armstrong – selected for their sustainability credentials – were specified for a new Pre-Operative Assessment Department and Surgical Admissions Suite at Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Two more NHS Trusts have chosen Avensys UK to look after their communitybased medical devices, with services including asset auditing, equipment servicing and repair, and the Avensys online asset management database.

An ‘out of this world’ flooring design using Polyflor’s vinyl flooring has brought an extra element of fun to a playroom at the Nightingale children’s ward at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.