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The Engineering Council has successfully been voted in to join the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), becoming the 24th member of the Government-appointed body.

A clean air technology company is ramping up its focus on innovation with a new department specialising in the research and development of products for the healthcare sector.

Tesco, Veolia, Groundwork, and NHS Property Services, have joined forces to recycle soft plastics into outdoor furniture for upcoming social prescribing green spaces.

Sisk has been appointed via the ProCure23 framework to build two new operating theatres and associated recovery and clinical support spaces, for the new Lewisham Surgical Centre at University Hospital Lewisham, which are set to become operational next year.

IHEEM has released the complete schedule of conference presentations, keynotes, exhibition seminars, and workshops for Healthcare Estates 2024 – which will take place on 8 and 9 October at Manchester Central.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced today (Wednesday 7 August 2024) that it has provisionally decided to fine Advanced Computer Software Group Ltd (Advanced) £6.09 m following an initial finding that the provider failed to implement measures to protect the personal information of 82,946 people, including some sensitive personal information, in an NHS ransomware incident in August 2022

At P4 we have been manufacturing self-testing emergency lighting for over 35 years, starting out in Bedfordshire in The Warner family home. In 2011, following several strategic growth steps, we moved into our current purpose-built factory in Fakenham, Norfolk.

More than 1,000 newly qualified GPs will be recruited across England thanks to government action to – as the Department of Health & Social Care puts it – ‘remove red tape currently preventing surgeries from hiring doctors’.

Security services specialist, Magenta Security Services, has launched a programme to provide mental health and 'general wellbeing' support to staff.

Global resource management company, Veolia, is set to deliver Specialist Estates Engineering and Maintenance Services to a range of NHS and public sector authorities, after securing a place on the North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) Hard FM Framework.

Zentia, a UK specialist in complete ceiling solutions, has spent £2 million on upgrades and refurbishments at its two manufacturing sites in Team Valley, Gateshead, in an investment that reflects its commitment to UK manufacturing.

Contractor, Henry Brothers Construction, has been appointed to build a new £15 m centre for community health services in Belper, Derbyshire, on the site of the former Belper Clinic, as part of the Babington Hospital site on Derby Road.

In a recent major operating theatre design-and-build project for Whiston Hospital, specialist in critical ventilation systems for healthcare and life science projects, Medical Air Technology (MAT), joined main contractor, Warden Construction, to deliver ‘an outstanding new theatre suite’.

Mitie has secured a new contract with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, to provide waste services across the city’s Queen’s Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, initially for three years, but with the option to extend for a further two.

Pipeline nitrous oxide should no longer be considered as a means of supplying nitrous oxide in modern anaesthetic practice, according to leading anaesthetic organisations in the UK and Ireland, who are calling for decommissioning of nitrous oxide manifolds.

Building work on Assura’s new surgery in Shirley near Southampton has officially completed, and the new facility is ready to welcome patients.

Security and access control solutions specialist, Abloy UK, has launched a new ‘white paper’, titled Securing the Future: Revolutionising Critical Infrastructure Access Control with Digital Solutions, which it says ‘investigates the transformative potential of digital access control technologies’, specifically focusing on the comparative strengths and weaknesses of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth.

Willmott Dixon Interiors to deliver next phase of £11 m refurbishment at Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital through SCAPE – one of the UK’s leading public sector procurement framework providers.

Healthcare engineering and construction specialist, MIG Medical, has launched what it says is the UK’s first healthcare design and innovation hub – its Healthcare Innovation Centre – at its Union House building in Altrincham.

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Cardiff team has been appointed by the NHS to deliver an extension to The Grange University Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) in Cwmbran, near Newport.