The redevelopment would replace an ageing hospital estate, some of which dates from the 1940s, delivering a larger, purpose-built hospital with modern facilities designed to improve care, patient experience, and the working environment for staff, supported by the latest medical and digital technology. The new hospital will have 538 overnight beds, all in single rooms

The City of Wolverhampton Council, working in partnership with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, the Black Country Integrated Care Board, and Walsall Council, has secured £25m from NHS England to establish the centre in the town. The CDC will improve access to diagnostic tests for people across Wolverhampton and Walsall, complementing

The department was opened by 12-year-old patient Antony, alongside Chair of Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) Sir Andrew Morris, Jamie French from the Horton Hospitals Charity, and Head of Audiology Rachel Humphriss. Children and young people in Banbury and north Oxfordshire are now able to access specialist hearing assessments closer to home, thanks to the creation

As many as 140,000 lifts across the UK could still require emergency communication upgrades ahead of the retirement of the UK’s Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) on 31 January 2027, according to estimates from the Lift and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA). LEIA is issuing an urgent call to building owners, property managers, and facilities management

The Neighbourhood Health Forum was formed in 2025 to offer a collective private sector voice to support Government and the NHS in the delivery of a neighbourhood health service and the creation of new public-private-partnership (PPP) models in health. Over the last nine months, the Forum’s membership has grown to 16 private sector organisations with

The Grade I-listed North Wing, which dates back to 1732, won the RICS Heritage Award at the 2026 RICS Grand Final. The project was delivered by Barts Heritage, with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The award recognises the project’s conservation work and its approach to making an important historic building accessible to the

The two Trusts’ use of the Epic electronic patient record (EPR) has also freed up an estimated 275,000 hours of nursing and phlebotomy time and has spared patients extra blood draws. Guy’s and St Thomas’ began using the Epic system alongside King’s College Hospital in October 2023, with the need to cut down on repeat

Two new scanners went live following six months of building and installation works funded by NHS England, as part of the Trust’s wider estates investment programme. This involved extending the main CDC building to create two new rooms to house the scanners.   David Tao, clinical services manager at Wembley CDC, said: “I am delighted that

NHS Shared Business Services was created in 2004 by the DHSC to deliver corporate services to the NHS. The new framework will provide NHS organisations and the wider public sector  with a compliant route to access a comprehensive range of hard facilities management services, maintenance solutions, and specialist estates support. Procured in accordance with the

SEE Services is responsible for a programme encompassing more than 700 charging connectors. Optimo will provide the intelligent software platform and operational support capabilities to manage the connected charging network, bringing together vehicle readiness, charging infrastructure, and site energy management. The hardware-agnostic Fleet Energy Operating System will connect charging infrastructure, vehicle telematics, battery state-of-charge information,

The cutting-edge £25m endoscopy unit, one of the largest NHS facilities of its kind, was delivered by Robertson Construction Yorkshire & East Midlands and designed by The Manser Practice for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Shaped through extensive stakeholder engagement, the unit places all patient facilities on one level. Its three-cluster pod model gives

The new facility, known as H50, will provide laboratories for Containment Level 3 (CL3) and Containment Level 4 (CL4) pathogens, supporting the UK’s ability to protect the country from the most dangerous infectious disease threats. As part of the 2025 Spending Review, ministers took the strategic decision to move UK Health Security Agency’s specialist scientific

The 240 m2 facility will include a new ophthalmic operating theatre, featuring an Ultra Clean Ventilation (UCV) canopy, alongside a dedicated two-bed recovery area for patients following their procedures. Modular construction will see 90 per cent of construction is completed off-site, meaning minimal disruption to patients and staff. The project is expected to complete in

Darent Valley Hospital was built and is operated under the Private Finance Initiative scheme. The partnership will help joint estates teams identify problems earlier, reduce unnecessary energy use and waste, maintain buildings and equipment more effectively, and make better-informed decisions based on what is happening across the estate. Jeanette Batten, director of estates, facilities, capital

Nearly one in six (15 per cent) of UK STEM professionals have seen colleagues leave in the past year after AI changed their work. Rather than replacing workers, the findings suggest AI is changing the nature of technical jobs so much that employees are simply choosing to leave. One in seven respondents (14 per cent)