Lightning-fast Legionella detection
UK hospitals and health facilities can now benefit from detection of Legionella “ten times faster than before”, via a rapid detection process known as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) now being offered by environmental analysis organisation ALcontrol Laboratories.
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Efficiency at its heart
Agfa HealthCare has been selected by Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust to provide PACS (Picture Archiving & Communication System), RIS (Radiology Information System) and Cardiology IT “solutions” to “transform the Trust’s information workflow” by enabling a “completely free data flow” between the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, despite the fact that each facility’s system will work independently of the other.
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Welsh acute hospital can continue operating
Welsh Minister for Health & Social Services Edwina Hart has said a large North Wales district acute hospital that does not meet current fire safety standards can continue being used, subject to interim measures, but hospital bosses say much of a central 1970s-built ward block needs rebuilding at an estimated £270 million cost.
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Galliford Try wins three-year ISTC deal
Galliford Try Facilities Management has won a three-year contract to provide hard facilities management services for independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) on behalf of Circle, which claims to be the UK’s largest partnership of healthcare professionals.
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Bringing a ‘leaner’ approach
Two individuals who have studied “lean healthcare” provision in Japan, subsequently successfully applying the key principles at a $650 million Seattle tertiary healthcare centre, are joining Manchester’s Manufacturing Institute to apply the “best practice lean methodologies” they say have “revolutionised” the US healthcare industry to UK hospitals.
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Perfect prescription for GP assessment centre
UK office interior design and fit-out specialist Area Sq has transformed the existing Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) assessment centre in Croydon, reportedly the only UK facility that allows assessments of GPs to be undertaken in a realistic environment, into “a pioneering facility” in just 12 weeks.
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