RECENT NEWS

Following the adoption of what it dubs ‘new, sustainable technology’, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to improve patient experience with visitor access to a new service which provides patients with ‘free, reliable, and guaranteed access’ to wheelchairs while visiting King’s College Hospital in south London.

Representatives from NHS Property services recently joined members of a local community in the New Forest to celebrate the official opening of the new Hythe and Dibden War Memorial Hospital in Southampton.

A ‘striking lack of climate preparation from Government’, and ‘fully credible’ planning for climate change apparent in just five of the 45 adaptation outcomes examined in the publication, are highlighted by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) as its publishes its latest report on England’s adaptation progress today.

Salisbury District Hospital – in response to a Home Office directive to all NHS hospitals – has just upgraded its smart access control system to enable ‘instant lockdown’ of the site in the event of a security event necessitating this.

Waterproofing and surfacing specialist, Triflex has put together a guide, Solutions for failing asphalt, for multi-storey car parks.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has extended Sodexo Health & Care’s catering and soft FM services contract for a further four years to 2027.

SageTech Medical, the medical device company focused on the capture and recycling of ‘environmentally polluting’ anaesthetic gases from the human and veterinary healthcare sectors, says ‘positive results’ from a study by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust using its gas capturing system have been published by the Association of Anaesthetists.

MTX has been awarded a new contract to deliver two operating theatres at Royal Bolton Hospital, ‘using Modern Methods of Construction to ensure a faster, greener, safer, and more cost-effective delivery’.

NHS Lanarkshire has recently built on its long-term partnership with Multitone Electronics by upgrading the critical messaging system the critical communications specialist supplied in 2001 at the University Hospital Hairmyres in East Kilbride.

Procurement organisation, Fusion21, has announced the suppliers successfully appointed to its national Painting, Decorating, and Associated Repairs Framework, which is worth up to £125 million over a four-year period.

The latest WHO report on antimicrobial resistance surveillance, Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Europe 2022, highlights the scale of the challenge now facing hospitals, reports Pharmafilter.

The ACORN consortium, led by developer and investor, Kajima, with lead designers White Arkitekter, has secured the green light for the reserved matters associated with the 2017 outline planning permission for the new Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, and unveiled new images of the facility.

When a completely new flooring system was required for a refurbishment project at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Tremco says it was ‘in pole position’ to fulfil the needs of the client, Axiom Group (NW), with its ‘fully compatible solutions offering’.

NHS England has published its updated Health Technical Memorandum, HTM 07-01: Safe and Sustainable Management of Healthcare Waste.

A ‘major’ new six-year study will use philosophical expertise to help bring patient voices into healthcare research and practice.

For the first time, patients will no longer need to travel abroad for treatment of acute cardiac diseases, as the Gibraltar Health Authority prepares to provide local coronary angiography and angioplasty services in a new interventional cardiac suite at the city’s St Bernard’s Hospital.

Caddick Construction has completed United Healthcare Developments’ ‘state-of-the-art’, four-storey healthcare centre in Carlisle, which it says is the UK’s most sustainable and energy efficient primary care centre.

A new, modern Urgent & Emergency Care Centre for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, designed by BDP, and built by Tilbury Douglas, has opened at Walsall Manor Hospital.

Proposals for a new community hospital in Consett, designed by Medical Architecture for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, and sited on the edge of Consett at a gateway to the County Durham countryside, have been unanimously approved by Durham’s strategic planning committee.

Clean air engineering specialist, Howorth Air Technology, says it feels ‘compelled as a business to address the knowledge gaps among clinical staff, engineers, and contractors, in both public and private health organisations, to help them fully understand the specific and detailed requirements of air ventilation systems’.