RECENT NEWS

A new analysis from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) – titled ‘Healthcare spending: addressing the big issue?’, assesses ‘the widening gap between healthcare resources and healthcare costs’, and – as the business puts it – ‘the role of financing in closing this rift’.

Sisk has been appointed to deliver a new Children’s Cancer Centre (CCC) at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) in central London.

Nuffield Health and GE HealthCare have announced a £200 m collaboration which will equip Nuffield Health’s hospitals with the latest GE HealthCare diagnostic imaging technology.

Version 1, ‘a global leader in digital transformation’, has been awarded a national contract to support The Health Service Executive (HSE) in delivering ‘digitally enabled’ healthcare services across Ireland.

The Combustion Engineering Association (CEA)’s new General manager, Michael Kaye (pictured), has a strong background in mechanical and design engineering, coupled with years of industry leadership, and – the Association says – brings both expertise and a fresh perspective to the long-standing trade association and educational charity.

Peabodys, which first began serving ‘gourmet organic’ Fairtrade coffee and freshly prepared food within hospitals in London in 1997, has recently opened its 12th coffee shop, at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester.

The contract to deliver Royal Surrey County Hospital’s new Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre in Guildford – which will offer ‘state-of-the-art’ facilities, and include six new operating theatres, has been awarded to Modern Methods of Construction specialist, MTX.

Healthcare engineers looking to get a better understanding of UPS systems in medical environments can learn about the latest guidance on the subject provided by HTM 06-01 in an hour-long free webinar hosted by Kohler Uninterruptible Power in conjunction with Health Estate Journal taking place at 1.00 p.m. on 18 March.

Carrier is expanding its apprenticeship programme in the UK, in a move that it says reaffirms its commitment to training highly skilled HVAC professionals and helping to bridge the skills gap in the industry.

A new ‘state-of-the-art’ modular mammography suite at Craigavon Area Hospital in Northern Ireland, created for the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, has opened following its construction by offsite manufacturer, McAvoy.

Schneider Electric, a specialist in ‘digital transformation of energy management and automation’, says Circle Health Group – a leading UK independent provider of private hospital services, has saved over £200,000 since 2018, and solved 81 per cent of ‘maintenance tickets’ remotely, by working with it.

Northumberland-headquartered Merit, an industrialised construction and digital manufacturing specialist, has been appointed by the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to design and deliver a new Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit on site at Bedford Hospital.

Mott MacDonald is to help drive forward plans for a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn following its appointment as mechanical, electrical, and public health engineers on the project.

Consistency in healthcare design isn’t just about aesthetics – it’s about creating environments that actively support infection prevention, simplify maintenance, and enhance operational efficiency. Trovex’s ‘One Product Family, One Hygienic Finish’ philosophy embodies this vision, providing seamless solutions that meet the unique demands of modern healthcare facilities.

Scarborough Hospital, in collaboration with academics from the Universities of Birmingham and York, has been awarded national funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to fund research to establish how urgent and emergency care could be improved for patients living in rural coastal areas.

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’.