RECENT NEWS

IHEEM has announced that it is to jointly manage, and support, the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine’s (IPEM) Voluntary Register of Clinical Technologists (VRCT), in conjunction with IPEM and the Association of Renal Technologies (ART).

IHEEM President, Greg Markham, has been invited to speak at the Hospital Build & Infrastructure Middle East Exhibition & Congress (HBI-ME), being held at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre from 2-4 June 2014.

A ‘compelling free programme of events examining some of the key issues impacting on the estates departments responsible for maintaining and running hospitals efficiently’.

Forbo Flooring Systems’ Eternal project vinyl and Surestep safety vinyl products feature within a £6 millon Neighbourhood Health Centre in Anfield, Liverpool. Considerable community involvement during the Townsend Lane development saw local people put forward their requirements, whilst being kept ‘in the loop’ throughout.

Two ‘state-of-the-art’, recently opened, NHS health centres in Colne and Great Harwood in Lancashire have been fitted with ‘sophisticated lifesafety equipment’ from C-TEC by installation company Solid State.

Staff members at Brian House Children’s Hospice in Blackpool have seen the difference a sensory environment can make to children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions.

The Kent Institute of Medicine & Surgery (KIMS), a £95 million independent hospital on a seven-acre site near Maidstone, which, it is claimed, will ‘transform acute and specialist health provision in the county’, has been officially opened by HRH The Duke of Gloucester.

Vanguard Healthcare, ‘popularly known as the world’s leading provider of pop-up hospitals’, will showcase ‘international best practice’.

A panel discussion at the Electrical Contractors’ Association’s (ECA) entitled ‘Surviving the Recovery’ saw firm agreement that ‘the industry must modernise to survive and grow’.

Chaired by Peter Hansford, the Government’s Chief Construction Advisor, the panel included Brian Berry, chief executive of the Federation of Master Builders; Martin Bailey, chief innovation officer at NG Bailey; John Mead, partner at Gardiner and Theobald, Noble Francis, Construction Products Association economics director, and Paul Reeve, ECA director of Business Services.

Pegler Yorkshire’s new ‘online selector tool’, INSIGHT, provides installers and contractors with ‘a way to identify the most effective method to join pipework in any given situation’ via three ‘simple stages of search and selection’ – confirming the project type, application, and pipework system.

Spirax Sarco has delivered a project to provide the steam for heating, hot water, humidification, and laundry services, at the New South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

Building contractors, Lindrick Construction, have begun the refurbishment of a Victorian house with the iconic Liverpool address, One Penny Lane, to create a 900 ft2 medical facility with treatment and consulting rooms for Spire Liverpool Hospital.

Prater has secured a roofing and cladding contract for the new £240 m Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, which is scheduled to open in the summer of 2015, at which point the existing buildings will be demolished and replaced with parkland.

Warning that corrosion of pipework and components in water-based heating systems ‘nearly always results in costly repairs and unwelcome disruption’.

The ISS Facility Services Healthcare catering service at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has achieved the Soil Association’s Food for Life Bronze Standard Award – the first time a contract caterer has achieved this important accreditation in the NHS – and is now looking to progress to the Silver standard.

Eastwood Park is to run an engineers’ apprentice ‘summer school’ in August, offering four days’ residential training for hospital engineering apprenticeships.

Wandsworth Healthcare, the specialist provider of nurse call systems, has appointed Stuart Guest, who has 25 years’ experience in developing and delivering nurse call and communications solutions to large hospitals, as national framework manager.

Acting on behalf of the Watkin Jones Group, the Healthcare team at Jones Lang LaSalle has successfully forward funded a modern, purpose-built health centre in Chester city centre for a total consideration of £18.5 million with Primary Health Properties (PHP).

Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital has ‘significantly improved’ the efficiency of its new low pressure hot water heating system by installing 30 BoilerMagXT units from Eclipse Magnetics.

Two years since its launch, the UK’s Fire Door Inspection Scheme (FDIS) has more than 400 candidates registered on its online training programme, while over 150 ‘fire door experts’ have passed the FDIS Diploma, and are using the designation, DipFD.