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Brandon shines at European awards Brandon shines at European awards
Brandon Medical has won the “Best LED Lighting Application Award” at the European Electronics Industry Awards for the HD-LED medical lighting system. The award was presented jointly to Sagentia and Brandon Medical, the system’s co-developers.

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Dublin children’s hospital architects announced Dublin children’s hospital architects announced
An Taoiseach Brian Cowen has announced the selection of Dublin-based Murray O’Laoire/Brian O’Connell Associates and the London studio of international firm NBBJ Architects to design the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland in Dublin and Ambulatory & Urgent Care Centre at Tallaght.

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Rapid response aids flood-hit community
Portakabin’s rapid-response team has installed an interim building for two Cockermouth GP surgeries, which serve 15,000 patients, after their buildings were destroyed in the recent Cumbria floods.
Minister’s call to build on progress
Environment Secretary Dan Norris (pictured) has called on the UK construction industry to “embrace the financial and environmental opportunities waste reduction can offer”.
Course on a sensitive issue
Durham University and “e-learning company” Marshall ACM have produced a 45-minute online course covering records management/ information security/data protection and Freedom of Information, which is available to any organisation “to help ensure responsible business continuity”.
New powers on trouble-makers
Authorised NHS staff can now call on anyone causing trouble or nuisance to leave NHS premises and, should they refuse, remove them, following the introduction of new powers under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act (CJIA) 2008.
Vanguard’s European expansion
Vanguard Healthcare, the supplier of mobile surgical services, has announced plans to offer its mobile healthcare solutions across Europe.
Doncaster plans approved
Doncaster Community Solutions has received full planning permission to build two new healthcare centres, jointly costing over £14 million, in the Dearne Valley and Doncaster town centre.

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Record attendance level maintained in Harrogate Record attendance level maintained in Harrogate
The recent Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition was attended by over 1,400 delegates and visitors, similar to the record attendance achieved at the 2008 event despite the current challenging UK economic climate.

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Institute appeals for website help
IHEEM is to get a refurbished website to meet the growing membership needs of information exchange. The Institute’s Council has agreed to a refurbishment of the site, which it is considered is becoming “stale”, and “no longer meets the quality benchmark that IHEEM’s healthcare engineers and facility managers seek from their Institute”.
Help for Heroes
IHEEM raised £2,629.78 at the 2009 Annual Conference in Harrogate for the Help for Heroes (H4H) charity, which supports wounded service personnel.
Making an even bigger bang
IHEEM will be supporting The Big Bang at Manchester Central in March – a three-day event developed in partnership with over 70 organisations from business and industry, Government, and the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) community, aimed at stimulating interest in science and engineering among young people, and encouraging them to consider a career in the field.
Manchester move for Healthcare Estates
This year’s Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition, in early October, is to be held in Manchester – at the city’s Manchester Central (formerly G-MEX, pictured) – for the first time in the show’s history.
IFHE in good financial shape, meeting hears
The International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE), of which IHEEM is a national member, remains in a healthy financial position, with a “better than expected income” from its last Congress, held in November 2008 in Barcelona, members of the Federation’s Executive and Council learned at recent meetings in Buenos Aires.
Seminar subjects unveiled
Development of the IHEEM 2010 seminar programme is well under way. Seminars currently “in the pipeline” include:
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Ambition and vision at student awards
Eighty entries from students from schools of architecture and interior design all over the world were whittled down to just eight in the 2009 Architects for Health (AfH) Student Health Awards.

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Window device trio launched
Newcastle-based fire and security glazing specialist Fendor launched at the recent Healthcare Estates exhibition a “revolutionary new slipper clutch mechanism” designed for use in anti-ligature, anti-contraband windows.
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