RECENT NEWS

ELGA Process Water has introduced a new monitoring tool to help in microbiological control of water systems.

Construction of the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust’s new £40 million, 154-bed mental health inpatient unit, The Harbour, started on site early last month, with opening scheduled for spring 2015.

‘Engineering UK 2013’ is the annual flagship report of Engineering UK, the charity that promotes engineers, engineering, and technology, by raising awareness of the profession and the contribution of engineering to society.

Space for Health (SfH), the website where DH technical guidance, including Health Building Notes and Health Technical Memorandums – could be found, has now closed, ‘in line with the Government’s Digital Communications Strategy’, the Department of Health’s Estates and Facilities Policy Division explains.

Honeywell’s new FAAST Fire Alarm Aspiration Sensing Technology portfolio will be showcased at this year’s Firex from 13-16 May (Stand N40, Hall 3) at the NEC in Birmingham.

The two leading trade associations representing catering equipment manufacturers – the Catering Equipment Suppliers Association (CESA), and distributors – the Catering Equipment Distributors Association (CEDA), are to work more closely together.

EMS-Healthcare has ‘bespoke designed’ and built a mobile chemotherapy facility to help cancer experts deliver treatment closer to patients’ homes.

The editor and editorial committee of the 2014 IFHE Digest are urgently seeking synopses, of around 200 words, in English, from authors considering contributing an article for the 2014 international publication.

Over 500 professionals from the healthcare estates and facilities, healthcare engineering, architectural, and associated fields, are expected to gather at the 23rd IFHE Congress at the UCA University in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires in October 2014.

The IFHE’s 2013 Council and Executive Committee Meetings will take place at 9.00 am on 9 and 10 September respectively at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Putrajaya, Malaysia (pictured), just before the BEAM (Biomedical Engineering Association of Malaysia) 2013 Hospital Engineering Conference and Exhibition gets under way at the venue.

Writing in his most recent IHEEM President’s ‘blog’ (viewable at: www.iheempresident.wordpress.com), IHEEM’s President, Greg Markham (who recently took up a new role as technical director, EMCOR Facilities Services), says: “I’ve just returned from Bern, where I attended the IFHE Europe Council Meeting and European Congress hosted by IHS (the Institute of Hospital Engineers Switzerland).

NHS Sustainability Day, now in its second year, and which IHEEM again supported in 2013 (HEJ – February 2013) aims to celebrate the work done by staff within Trusts, hospitals, and healthcare organisations across England, to embed sustainable practices in their everyday working lives.

The theme for this year’s Healthcare Estates Conference is ‘Putting positive energy into healthcare’, ‘reflecting the key issue of cost savings, sustainability, and the changing nature of the healthcare sector’.

The Montefiore Hospital, a stylish recently completed conversion of a former late 19th century-built furniture depository in Hove, East Sussex (HEJ – April 2013), is reportedly the world’s first hospital to incorporate the works of Brian Eno.

Global flooring and finishing brand, Gerflor, has released a new decorative wallcovering range, Mural Calypso.

Andrews Water Heaters has supplied a solar thermal water heating system for domestic hot water for the new Speke Neighbourhood Health Centre in Liverpool.

Privately-owned logistics provider, The Canute Group, has expanded its medical services division with a move to a larger facility in Wokingham.

The Department of Health (DH) is inviting NHS Chief Executives, nonexecutive directors, finance directors, capital managers, and estates professionals, to attend a series of free seminars this month, which will demonstrate how use of the ProCure21+ Construction Framework can help NHS Trusts gain maximum value-for-money.

An elegant building designed by Clayton & Black in 1899 in Hove, initially used as a furniture depository for local department store Hanningtons, and subsequently by Legal & General as offices, has undergone a £35 m transformation into a private hospital for Spire Healthcare.

Betts Environmental, a specialist in in precious metals recovery, claims that many NHS Trusts currently lack the resources to effectively dispose of X-ray films in compliance with the Data Protection Act and that, consequently, they may be missing out on potentially lucrative revenue.