RECENT NEWS

Plans for a new multi-storey car park and access road at Airedale Hospital have been approved by Bradford Council, marking the start of the first major works for the new hospital.

Planning permission has been granted for the new Hampton Medical Centre in Hampton Hargate, Peterborough.

Northwood Health Centre – a former cottage hospital that has stood vacant since the late 2010s – has been brought back into healthcare use.

NHS Property Services has acquired a key GP practice building in Cumbria, insuring the future of an important rural community healthcare facility.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is set to scrutinise the reorganisation of Integrated Care Boards (ICBs).

A new report from Kier examines how industrialised delivery principles can translate into real-world industrialised delivery outcomes across major public sector programmes.

The Neighbourhood Health Forum – a collective voice of private sector organisations in health infrastructure delivery – has welcomed GRAHAM as its latest member.

A groundbreaking event has been held at the site of the new £6.8m Hawthorn Medical Centre in Manchester.

Key partners from across the health sector came together at the House of Lords on 4 November to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the NHS LIFT programme.

Neighbourhood health is rapidly moving from policy ambition to delivery priority. As systems explore how to provide more care closer to home, the focus is shifting from what neighbourhood health should be to how it can be successfully delivered. Following a thought-provoking Healthcare Estates roundtable, Anastasia Chrysafi, Willmott Dixon's National Healthcare Lead, reflects on the challenges, opportunities and action needed to advance the neighbourhood health agenda.

A public consultation has begun on proposals for the new, state-of-the-art Hillingdon Hospital in London.

West Midlands market town Bilston has been chosen as the home of a new NHS CDC to improve health outcomes for local residents.

The new Paediatric Audiology Outpatients Department at the Horton General Hospital has been officially opened.

With three months left until the PSTN switch-off, the Lift and Escalator Industry Association is urging facilities managers to protect vital lift emergency communications.

The Neighbourhood Health Forum – a collective voice of private sector organisations in health infrastructure delivery – has welcomed Plenary Group as its latest member.

The restoration of a historic part of St Bartholomew’s Hospital has won a national award recognising excellence in heritage conservation.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ has collaborated with King’s College Hospital to avoid 3.3 million duplicate and repeat tests for patients over the past three years.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has completed an expansion of Wembley CDC which will allow the Trust to offer an extra 26,000 MRI scans to patients each year.

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched its third-generation Hard Facilities Management framework, Hard FM3.

Optimo Energy has been appointed by SEE Services to support London Ambulance Service’s electric fleet operations.