RECENT NEWS

The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has celebrated ‘a significant milestone’ as Phase B1 of the Belfast Maternity Unit at Royal Victoria Hospital, constructed by Graham-BAM Healthcare Partnership (GBHP), reaches completion and is officially handed over to the Trust.

The ACORN consortium, led by Kajima, the pan-European property investor, developer, and asset manager, alongside Sacyr, Abrdn, and the Development Bank of Wales, has achieved financial close for the new Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, which is due to open in April 2027

Yorkshire-based construction firm, I&G, part of the wider Sewell Group, has been appointed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to build the new Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease on the Seacroft Hospital site in Leeds – the UK’s first of its kind.

West Suffolk Hospital has taken delivery of six all-electric PT400 pedestrian tow tractor tugs from Bradshaw Electric Vehicles, which has been operating since 1976.

The surgical team at Kingston Hospital in Kingston upon Thames has welcomed its first ‘state-of-the-art’ surgical robot, the da Vinci Xi.

Patients will soon be able to have scans and tests at a new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Cribbs Causeway out-of-town shopping centre near Bristol, as part of a wider NHS initiative to increase access to diagnostic procedures.

With rising water consumption, a growing population, and climate change, water conservation is becoming ever more pressing and – says Cistermiser – by 2050, Britain will require an additional 2.7 billion litres of water each day just to keep the taps running.

LinkLockers has announced what it says is ‘an exciting new partnership with eLocker – aimed at delivering cutting-edge smart locker solutions to its collective customer base’.

Abloy UK has provided the London Ambulance Service with its PROTEC2 CLIQ access management system to improve medicine management, meet compliance regulations, and offer effective oversight of access for auditability.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation has announced the appointment of Laing O'Rourke as the preferred partner to progress the design stage of the new four-storey clinical building at Calderdale Royal Hospital.

The new St Clement’s Surgery in Winchester has moved a step closer to completion after reaching the highest point of construction.

The ‘ultra-energy-efficient’ new medical centre on the cathedral city’s Upper Brook Street has ‘topped out’, with a small ceremony was held at the site to celebrate this milestone.

In what they dub ‘a ground-breaking development’, scientists at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh have identified a new species of bacterium, referred to as Stenotrophomonas Riyadhensis, through the application of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) technology.

The majority of project professionals working in the healthcare sector have confidence that the UK government will meet its 2050 Net Zero targets, according to a new survey by the Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered membership organisation for the project profession.

Portakabin has completed a specialist decontamination suite for an established endoscopy suite at King George Hospital, Goodmayes, in the process ‘considerably upgrading and improving endoscopy patient care’ for Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

A new £4 m ‘state-of-the-art’ nuclear medicine and molecular radiotherapy suite has been officially opened at Weston Park Cancer Centre in Sheffield by South Yorkshire’s Mayor, Oliver Coppard.

The Gorton Hub, in Gorton, Greater Manchester – which brings together primary and community healthcare, pharmacy services, and key public services such as a library, job centre, and adult education services, has celebrated its official opening.

‘As part of a major initiative to ensure that the engineers of tomorrow can rise to the challenges of the climate emergency’, the Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC), which partners The Royal Academy of Engineering and Siemens Digital Industries Software, has launched a new free-to-use Sustainability Toolkit to embed new greener approaches into engineering education.

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Essex business has been appointed to deliver a series of major upgrades to Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

Sodexo Health & Care has reinforced its long-standing relationship with the Royal Stoke University Hospital (RSUH), part of the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) and Haywood Hospital, part of the wider Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT).

A leading respiratory illness expert has claimed that facilities management and building services engineering will have a greater influence on worldwide human health and wellbeing than the medical and social care professions.