An expansion of cancer screening, with a push to further reduce waiting times, may lead to a new role on the NHS estate for the UK fleet of mobile endoscopy units.

Are some engineers failing in their quest to become registered because they do not have access to a mentor?

How to secure maximum value from a diverse estate – in the process improving working conditions, maximising property-related revenue, and optimising the patient environment, while reducing costs and improving efficiencies.

How medical gas technology has developed to meet changing demands, and some of the practical and financial challenges when specifying and maintaining such equipment – including the dilemma as to whether to continue maintaining functioning existing plant or to upgrade or replace it.

Carl Webb, HVAC Sales director at Andrews Sykes, discusses the importance of boiler reliability in the healthcare sector, and the implications of boiler performance ‘falling short’.

At a meeting last September at Chesham-based medical gas system specialist, SHJ, key personnel explained to HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, how the company is increasingly harnessing AI, IOT, and edge computing to enhance its systems to run and fault-find almost autonomously, feeding back fault data instantly should plant begin running sub-optimally, and taking remedial action to restore full performance, often without the need for human intervention.

The energy market has certainly hit the news headlines in recent times, as the conflict in Ukraine has led to record market prices, and concerns about long-term continuity of supply.

A look by Australian academics and a plumbing and safety equipment specialist at some of the risks to hospital plumbing systems from both lead contamination and the build-up and spread of opportunistic waterborne pathogens

Hywel Dda University Health Board has today (Thursday, 28 March 2024) has confirmed that building work on the new Chemotherapy Day Unit (CDU) at Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth will start in May.

Almost a third (29%) of NHS Trusts in England are still not measuring their carbon footprint, according to Freedom of Information (FOI) data released by Schneider Electric – the specialist in the digital transformation of energy management and automation.

Efforts to deliver one of the government’s major NHS priorities – to shift more care into the community – will need to be boosted by targeted capital investment in buildings, facilities, and equipment for community providers, a new survey of senior health leaders, undertaken by the Community Network, hosted by the NHS Confederation and NHS Providers, suggests.

According to David Graham of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), “the importance of the safe diagnosis and treatment of patients cannot be overstated – yet the role played by water quality in patient safety has sometimes been under-stated”.

How to make the best use of building energy management systems (BEMS) will be the focus of a series of free seminars to be held by Trend Control Systems at various UK locations beginning this month.

Hospital-acquired infection is the cause of about 5,000 deaths a year in the UK. In New Zealand, there are more than three times as many such deaths as from the annual road toll. The costs in loss of income, in pain and suffering and in direct costs to hospitals are staggering, writes Clive Broadbent.

In an article in the April 2013 issue of Health Estate Journal, Geoff Dillow, a former head of training at the forerunner to Eastwood Park, the Hospital Engineering Centre, addressed the roles and responsibilities of personnel involved in the operation and management of medical gas pipeline systems (MGPS).

Ian Greggor, project director at international property and construction consultancy Cyril Sweett, discusses how, with the advent of world-class commissioning (WCC), the primary care estate may be most efficiently, and effectively, managed in the future, and the complexities and challenges commissioners and providers may encounter along the way.

At a time when, with less capital funding available for purchasing high value hospital equipment, NHS board-level and financial personnel may be tempted to sign off purchase of equipment that:

Geoff Dillow, the main author of HTM 08-06: 2007 Pathology Laboratory Gas Systems, examines the new guidance in detail. This article will form the basis of a presentation at the Medical Gas Association AGM on 16 October in Harrogate during the IHEEM Healthcare Estates event. Geoff Dillow is an MGPS Services consultant.

Designing power protection components – uninterruptible power systems (UPS), emergency lighting inverters, generators, and isolated power supplies – into a hospital or other healthcare facility’s electrical distribution system can be challenging.

Two articles that featured in HEJ’s April and November 2013 issues focused, respectively, on the roles and responsibilities of those operating and managing medical gas pipeline systems, and on the MGPS Permit to Work System.