RECENT NEWS

A new multi-sector UK national study, commissioned by ‘employer commute solutions specialist’, Mobilityways, has found that large UK-based advanced, civil, and automotive engineering businesses trail similarly sized businesses in both the healthcare and financial services sectors in terms of both setting interim goals to reach Net Zero and establishing long-term targets to achieve carbon neutrality.

Among what IHEEM Knowledge Partner, PPL Training, describes as a ‘raft of new courses’ introduced by it in 2023 were several new HV electrical courses and – ‘specifically for healthcare estates and facilities teams’ – Authorised Person Lifts HTM 08-02 courses (including refresher training and Trapped Passenger Lift Release).

The Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and Building a Safer Future (BSF) have entered a new strategic partnership that they say focuses on supporting organisations in assessing their competency in relation to building safety – especially as regards higher-risk buildings (HRBs) as defined in the Building Safety Act.

A new collaboration between leading UK patient hygiene specialist, TR Equipment, and disability technology experts, Innova Care Concepts, will widen access to an extensive range of products to support assisted bathing, showering, and rehabilitation needs across the UK, the two companies say.

Security, entrance, and access solutions provider, dormakaba, has launched an escape route system designed to keep buildings and doors secure while allowing a safe means for evacuation in an emergency situation.

Patients and clinicians across the Midlands – and potentially across England – are to benefit from a £1.28 m AI upgrade to radiology training facilities at County Hospital in Stafford.

In what it dubs ‘a significant milestone for fire safety in healthcare environments’, Specialist Door Solutions (SDS) has confirmed its successful attainment of an FD60 pass for its ‘innovative’ double-acting doorset.

Wernick Group has just released a bespoke Christmas advertisement, ‘tailored to promoting the company’s proud history’ that stretches back to 1934, with a strong seasonal feel.

Tilbury Douglas has successfully delivered a £10 million project to build and refurbish catheter laboratories at Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital (LHCH).

Critical cooling specialist, Airedale by Modine, has launched an HTM 03-01 ‘white paper’ to assist consultants, estate managers, and buying groups, within the healthcare sector interpret and apply HTM 03-01 guidelines.

The New Hospital Programme (NHP) has announced that the launch of the Programme Delivery Partner (PDP) procurement commenced on 29 November.

Fiona Hodgson, Chief Executive of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers' Federation (SNIPEF) (pictured), has expressed frustration over the Scottish Government's decision to delay the banning of gas boilers, highlighting what SNIPEF says will be ‘the significant impact on the plumbing and heating industry and on public confidence’.

Kier has begun work on a new 10,000 m2 eye hospital in Sunderland.

Alessandro Caruso Architects’ design of one of England’s first in a new series of Community Diagnostic Centres has won the practice a Design Concept (Architecture) Award in the World Design Awards 2023.

Supplier of medical gas pipeline systems and services, SHJ Medical Gas Specialists, has made two senior appointments to its Customer Care Team – Kim Bowkett as head of Service, and Rebecca Coolahan as Contracts manager.

The NHS will not be able to deliver faster and more productive patient care unless capital budgets are nearly doubled to at least £14.1 billion, says a new analysis published in an NHS Confederation report, 'Investing to save. The capital requirement for a more sustainable NHS in England'.

The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) has marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with the release of new research, ’30 years back, 3 trends for the future’, which says three ‘megatrends’ will affect workplaces ‘for years to come’.

Six new ‘virtual clinic pods’ have opened at the London’s Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead – providing a bespoke private space for around 600 remote consultations per week.

Patients in and around Kendal in Cumbria are to benefit from a new £13.7 million Surgical Hub currently under construction on Level 3 at Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, due for completion in July 2024.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and global healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, have entered ‘a new strategic collaboration to drive forward health innovation plans in West Yorkshire’.