This impacts infection control and safety protocols, and mentions ensuring rapid access to medical devices. For the healthcare estates and facilities management industry, these developments within the medical devices sector are significant as they influence the standards, technologies, and compliance measures that shape modern clinical environments. Rob Reid, Deputy director, Innovative Devices, said: “Last month

Last week, Calvin Bailey, MP for Leyton and Wanstead, joined Whipps Cross Hospital chief executive, Dr Amanjit Jhund, and redevelopment director, Alastair Finney, to see these transformations in action. Consultant paediatrician Dr Kausikh Nandi also stopped by to discuss how new facilities will better support children and families. The Trust said: “The visit showcased how

Responding to the briefing, Rebecca Gray, NHS Confederation mental health director, said: “This briefing shines a welcome light on the challenges currently facing crisis and inpatient mental health services and support. “NHS and voluntary, charity and social enterprise (VCSE) providers have worked together to significantly expand crisis provision, including crisis houses and assessment centres, psychiatric

This compares with a total capital spend of £70 m last year. Funding sources include £25.25 m awarded through the Government’s Estates Safety Fund – one of the largest allocations in the scheme intended to address critical infrastructure and safety risks. Sources also include an additional £9 m awarded through the Government’s 2025/26 constitutional standards recovery capital

The Association says the rising number of deaths linked to longer and more intense heatwaves makes this a serious building safety issue with larger parts of the population now vulnerable to heat-related health problems. Researchers from Imperial College London estimated there were 263 excess deaths due to heat in the capital during June alone. BESA’s

Dave Dawkins joins the business with over 30 years of industry experience, primarily in lighting manufacturing, as well as in rail infrastructure and distribution. His career spans senior roles in international markets, and the company said he has a proven track record in business development, strategic planning, and supply chain management. Commenting on his appointment,

Major recent contracts have included Highgate East, a purpose-built £70 m secure mental health facility in the heart of Central London, alongside the North View site in Manchester – a 150-bedroom inpatient facility that was Polar’s biggest mental health project to date. The manufacturer said the specialised products it designs and builds are vital for

A new report from the Association for Project Management (APM) finds that neurodivergent professionals – including NHS and care staff with ADHD, autism or dyslexia – are still facing structural barriers in recruitment, progression and workplace support. APM commissioned the recently published Promoting Neurodiversity Report to assess how well the industry is integrating neurodivergent people,

The work aims to deliver a carbon reduction of approximately 25 per cent from 2030 onwards. The project has received £21.6 million grant funding from the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), which is administered by Salix on behalf of the Government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). The Carbon and Energy Fund (CEF)

Using generative AI algorithms, the research team ‘designed’ more than 36 million possible compounds, and computationally screened them for antimicrobial properties. The top candidates they discovered are structurally distinct from any existing antibiotics, and they appear to work ‘by novel mechanisms that disrupt bacterial cell membranes’. This approach allowed the researchers to generate and evaluate

The Association says ‘a collective competence failure by the built environment sector was identified as a critical contributor to the Grenfell Tower disaster’ – leading to competence frameworks being developed for different activities and occupations in response to key recommendations of the Hackitt Review which followed the fire. BESA is working with the Industry Competence

The organisations contributing their expertise are: Arup. Currie & Brown. Introba. Sisk. Laing O’Rourke. Perkins&Will. P + HS Architects. All seven companies participated in the inaugural Silent Pandemic workshop in London in March, which brought together infection prevention specialists and design and construction professionals to examine how hospitals can be designed, built, and maintained, to

A strategic decision was made to fully modernise the theatre ‘to match the standards of the wider NHS Trust and support clinical continuity during upcoming works elsewhere’. The hospital’s main theatre was operating with equipment that was over 30 years’ old. Initially, the hospital – managed by the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust – had allocated

The new centre (see axonometric image) will be dedicated to non-emergency (elective) surgery, and housed in a new eight-storey purpose-built building at Guy’s Hospital. It will include six new operating theatres, 17 recovery rooms, a discharge lounge, and change and rest facilities for theatre staff. Elective orthopaedic surgery will transfer from Guy’s main theatres to

The organisations said: “This collaboration brings together Ergéa’s deep expertise in lifecycle management of medical equipment and Newton’s Tree’s cutting-edge platform for deploying and monitoring AI applications across clinical and operational domains. Together, they will deliver a comprehensive, vendor-neutral MES offering that empowers NHS Trusts to optimise care delivery, improve health outcomes, and drive organisational