RECENT NEWS

Equipment tracking, artificially intelligent CCTV, and voice-activated environmental controls, are just some of the technologies being trialled at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) to support plans to create a national centre of excellence for rehabilitation.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) has partnered with Cinos to modernise its unified communications (UC) platform.

Infection prevention specialist, DDC Dolphin, has gained ISO 14001 accreditation – which it says will enable it to ‘further help hospitals and care homes to meet their environmental targets’.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says it is ‘excited to announce a new milestone’ in the development of the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Mansfield Community Hospital site.

Newly released photos from Nottingham University Hospitals show the progress of the construction work on the expanded Neonatal Unit at the city’ Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC), which is set to open in December.

Clinical engineering specialist, Avensys, has recently forged a ‘strategic partnership’ with Probo Medical to offer NHS and private hospitals a single provider of EBME and diagnostic imaging services.

Sustainable Energy First, a sustainability and utilities specialist backed by Beech Tree Private Equity, has announced its acquisition of business utility and sustainability consultancy, Inenco.

People living with dementia should have more power and creative freedom in collaborative design projects, new research from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh suggests.

Mace, the global consultancy and construction company, has been appointed to project manage the delivery of the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital, joining a wider design team which also includes Hawkins\Brown, White Arkitetker, Ramboll, MJ Medical, and Edge, as the scheme progresses into technical design.

Leading paint manufacturer, Dulux Trade, recently invited architects, specifiers, and interior designers to the Allermuir showroom in London for a panel discussion exploring inclusive design and ‘the power of colour and sustainability on wellbeing’.

The external structure of the new Elective Centre at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, which is being built by Darwin Group, has now been completed, with over 200 modules lifted into place by a crane over six weeks to create the building structure.

A ceremony took place in Carlisle on 14 August to celebrate the start of building of a £15m Endoscopy Unit on the grounds of the Cumberland Infirmary.

Work is now underway by contractor, Speller Metcalfe, on the new £4 million Edmonds Transplant Centre Birmingham for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, being created via the extensive refurbishment of the outdated existing ward and staff area on the ground floor of the old hospital building built in 1935.

CABE (the Chartered Association of Building Engineers) has announces that Dr Hywel Davies HonFCIBSE, has joined the Association as head of Technical Insight.

A specialist postgraduate medical specialist and research training centre in Malawi, designed by leading African architecture and engineering practice FBW Group, has been officially opened.

West Yorkshire-based Knightsbridge Furniture has announced a new collaboration with Cranium Medical Products of Boksburg, South Africa, which creates ‘100% recyclable furniture optimised for the healing of patients’.

The Engineering Council has signed a ‘landmark’ Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the USA’s National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Kier to deliver a new £22.5m endoscopy building at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) in Farnborough Common near Bromley in Kent.

Aspiring healthcare professionals in the region will soon be benefiting from ‘state-of-the-art’, fully accessible anatomy training facilities at the University of East Anglia (UEA), designed bv LSI Architects, following the start of building works at the site on Norwich Research Park.

The Passive Fire Knowledge Group (PFKG) and The Get It Right Initiative (GIRI) have announced plans to work together ‘to improve safety and construction practices’ by sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas, and promoting each other’s aims and objectives.