RECENT NEWS

Mitie, the facilities management company, has appointed Lindsey Coles as healthcare director in its facilities management division.

Provider of practical-based and distance learning medical equipment training, Avensys UK (HEJ – August 2015), has received CPD accreditation for all its Level 2 and 3 courses, and is inviting engineers to attend a free online training session on ‘Electrical Safety Testing’, on September 16 at 1 pm.

Phil Story has joined the team at supplier, installer, and integrator of digital television and audio visual components, Airwave Healthcare, as a regional account manager.

BSRIA has extended its scope of UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accreditation to include laboratorybased acoustic testing.

An ‘important milestone’ in P+HS Architects’ long-standing relationship with Nuffield Health has seen the completion of a brand new hospital for the private healthcare provider in Cambridge.

With support from the Government’s export agency, UKTI (UK Trade & Investment), Vernacare says it has secured more than 23% of the Singapore hospital market for its ‘hygienic patient washing and toileting products’.

The ‘pioneering’ Joy Care by Bristan, a ‘stylishly designed’ BEAB Care and RNIB-endorsed shower said to be easy to install and retrofit, is being used in conjunction with shower pumps ‘to meet the complex requirements of wet room retrofits in the care and social housing sectors’.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has started using Unique Device Identifiers based on GS1 standards in healthcare recalls, in a move which GS1 UK says ‘will improve traceability, efficiency, and cost savings, throughout the NHS’.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s best-known high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated on 3 September, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell in Berkshire.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s best-known high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated on 3 September, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell in Berkshire.

A milestone in the major ongoing redevelopment going at England’s best-known high secure mental healthcare facility was celebrated on 3 September, with the topping out of one of the five new buildings which will make up the new Broadmoor Hospital near Bracknell in Berkshire.

Before the start of June’s highly successful IFHE-EU 2015 Congress in Turku in Finland (see also page 17), the Federation’s Executive Committee and Council met at the city’s Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel (see photo below), reports IHEEM’s IFHE representative, Andy Wavell.

The IFHE-Europe Congress for Hospital Engineering 2015, themed ‘Better productivity in healthcare with technology’, was held from 2-5 June in Turku on Finland’s south-west coast, hosted and organised by the Association of Finnish Hospital Engineering, SSTY, assisted and facilitated by the University of Turku.

A bespoke natural smoke and heat exhaust ventilator (NSHEV) manufactured by Bilco UK has been installed in a new nine-storey, multi-storey car park at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, completed by VINCI Construction UK.

Jim Marner – who has 32 years’ building and engineering services experience with Shepherd Engineering Services (SES), having joined the firm as a craft apprentice in 1982 – has been elected President of the Building & Engineering Services Association (B&ES) for 2015/16.

​A new wireless energy monitoring system which gives businesses real-time energy consumption statistics can ‘significantly extend’ the energy savings achieved when replacing ‘traditional’ commercial lighting system with LEDs, energy efficiency company, Minimise Energy, maintains.

Glazing solutions from architectural aluminium systems supplier, Kawneer, have achieved Secured by Design accreditation under the official UK police flagship initiative that supports the principles of ‘designing out crime’.

Two new operating theatres at the Lancashire Women and Newborn Centre at Burnley General Hospital feature Karl Storz’s OR1 NEO integrated theatre equipment as part of a £1.3 m investment to further consolidate the hospital’s reputation as one of north-west England’s leading laparoscopic gynaecological surgery centres.

MedStor was recently tasked with providing ‘the foundation for materials management solutions’ throughout the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Children in Govan, Glasgow.

A ‘forward-thinking NHS Trust’ in Surrey has recently enlisted the expertise of specialist building services engineers, RAB Specialist Engineers (RABSE), to address the issue of coil clogging in the cooling plant at one of its main hospitals, and reduce the cost of running the equipment, via the installation of air intake filter screens.