http://www.healthestatejournal.com/rss.aspxEssential news for health engineers and estate managers.(c) 2008, Step Communications Ltd. All rights reserved.Galliford Try has been awarded a £3.8 million contract to build Europe’s largest IVF Centre of its kind at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3976Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:10:11 GMTA continuing focus on hospital hygiene and safety, “systematic” measurement and publication of data for the first time on the care quality available at different hospitals, and strengthened rights for patients to choose their location and mode of treatment, with more information to aid “informed choices”, are among the new measures set out in the NHS Next Stage Review Final Report – “High Quality Care For All”.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3975Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:57:54 GMTNew legislation accompanying the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive will mean “big changes ahead” for those managing public buildings, says ABBE, the Awarding Body for the Built Environment, which provides NVQs and VRQs to companies in the property, construction, surveying, planning, and project management fields.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3927Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:59:20 GMTAdare Private Hospital and Clinic, the new private healthcare facility in Adare, County Limerick on which construction started last month, has signed a management contract with Australian private hospital operator Ramsay Health Care, which will operate the facility from its opening in January 2010.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3926Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:58:41 GMTOver 900 visitors attended the first ever Healthcare Ireland conference and exhibition in Dublin from 23-24 April, with 94% from the Irish Republic, 5% from Northern Ireland and 1% from the mainland UK.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3925Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:58:08 GMTA Belfast health centre incorporating Technal architectural aluminium glazing systems has won its second architectural award.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3924Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:57:26 GMTA £5 million energy efficiency programme, just “switched on” at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust’s Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, is expected to save £688,000 a year, reducing carbon emissions and boosting resources for patient care.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3923Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:56:46 GMTAccording to RIBA Publishing, publishers of a new book, Changing Hospital Architecture, as “background buildings”, “showing considerable consistency of component parts and key issues around the world”, hospitals “rarely excite passion in mainstream architectural and design culture”.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3922Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:56:03 GMTFire officers, fire safety and health estates personnel and senior brigade staff at last month’s National Association of Healthcare Fire Officers (NAHFO) 2008 conference (see also p34) expressed surprise that, four months after the Royal Marsden fire (Health Estate Journal – February/March 2008), little has been said by hospital management about the causes.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3921Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:55:22 GMTThe Healthcare Commission has launched what it says is the biggest inspection programme ever carried out in English NHS acute Trusts to verify that they are meeting infection control standards.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3920Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:54:30 GMTThe “free to members” telephone legal advice service provided by Law Express and established for IHEEM members in 2004 has not been as popular as first envisaged.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3918Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:51:01 GMTJust five months away from the start of this year’s Healthcare Estates Conference and Exhibition, being held from 14-15 October at the Harrogate International Centre, IHEEM says a record number of high quality conference papers have been submitted, while the accompanying exhibition looks all set to be a sell-out.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3917Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:50:27 GMTAll IHEEM members are being urged to help increase the Institute’s membership.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3916Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:49:14 GMTLater this year the Institute will be conducting a survey of members’ opinions on matters relating to membership, including member benefits, the educational programme, and Health Estate Journal (HEJ).http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3915Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:48:36 GMTStarting to investigate and optimise commercial opportunities for IHEEM is the Institute’s newly-formed Business Development Board.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3914Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:48:04 GMTA special tribute was paid at the recently-held Institute annual general meeting to David Wicks who had set a record as the longest-serving member of IHEEM’s Council, from which he was retiring.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3913Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:47:31 GMTThe Engineering Council UK Board has recently agreed to form a working group to discuss and produce a set of best practice guidelines for engineers on sustainability.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3912Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:46:50 GMTThe Parliamentary Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee recently held a session to hear evidence relating to its inquiry into engineering.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3911Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:46:17 GMTIHEEM has replaced its Technical Committee with a Technology Platform Committee.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3910Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:45:39 GMTIHEEM will be supporting a Health Service Journal-hosted conference at the Inmarsat conference venue in London’s City Road on 11 September themed “Developing Sustainable Healthcare Buildings”.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3909Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:45:05 GMTIHEEM members need to face significant challenges presenting in healthcare engineering and estate management, and step into high profile strategic roles, Rob Smith, the Institute’s new president, told the IHEEM annual general meeting, held recently in London.http://www.healthestatejournal.com/Story.aspx?Story=3908Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:43:49 GMT