Kohler Uninterruptible Power said: “The CPD-accredited webinar will cover the fundamentals of designing a UPS system, enabling healthcare engineers to explore the various UPS options available to suit their requirements, since with medical IT systems, there is no standard ‘one-size -fits-all solution.” Alex Emms, Technical director at Kohler Uninterruptible Power (pictured), who will be running

The Prime Minister said the move would ‘put an end to the duplication resulting from two organisations doing the same job, in a system currently holding staff back from delivering for patients’. ‘Stripping back layers of red tape and bureaucracy’ would, he said, ‘mean more resources being put back into the frontline, rather than being

The 10-year deal, with the potential for a five-year extension,  includes management of car parking facilities at Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Poole Hospital, Christchurch Hospital, and Alderney Hospital, with the additional future development of a multi-storey car par at Royal Bournemouth Hospital. It will see the expansion of car parking operations and services across the Trust,

Nearly nine in 10 community provider leaders say they don’t have access to the capital funding they need, and that this is impeding their efforts to improve productivity, and will make it harder to achieve the government’s ambitions to deliver more care out of hospitals, and instead in the community. The NHS Confederation says capital

The new hospital will be located at The Riverside, with free underground parking and ‘excellent public transport links’. CHEC says it is currently fitting out its new building into a ‘state-of-the-art clinical’ facility complete with one ophthalmology theatre. The company says the new facility will help reduce NHS waiting times and increase patient choice by

Ergéa says the development ‘marks a major advancement’ in UHL’s radiotherapy services, ‘boosting treatment capacity, and ensuring that patients have access to cutting-edge cancer care’. Attendees at the opening ceremony for the new ‘linac’ — which has been installed at Leicester Royal Infirmary – included Jon Melbourne, COO, Suzanne Nancarrow, associate director of Operations – Cancer,

The Hounsfield Unit, which houses CT, MRI, and phlebotomy services, has been named after Godfrey Hounsfield, a British electrical engineer who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his part in developing the CT scan. The new unit’s first patient was welcomed for a CT scan on the new scanner. Work on the CDC started with

Dr Dash is currently the Chair of the NHS North West London Integrated Care Board, and is leading a major review into the regulation of health and social care quality in England. The Department of Health and Social Care says her interim report, published last year, ‘shone a light on the scale of the failure

The funding boost will be for care homes providing nursing care in the community, ‘which is tailored to an individual’s needs and health outcomes’. This includes administering medicines’ and performing procedures. The DHSC says the extra funding will ‘help reduce the pressure on hospitals – by preventing unnecessary admissions’, and supports the discharge of individuals

Sodexo is reportedly the world’s largest employer of dietitians, ‘with 5,402 experts globally, bringing deep food expertise to diverse markets’. With ‘a strong heritage’ in food, it says it ‘provides tailored solutions’ through its food brands, including Modern Recipe – which it claims ‘transforms corporate dining into dynamic social spaces with contemporary menus’, and Kitchen

The NHP was first established in October 2020 to build a series of new hospitals across the UK, alongside replacing or refurbishing existing facilities and improving access to modern healthcare nationwide. Following a strategic review last September, the Health Secretary announced a rebalancing of the portfolio of hospital schemes, with secured funding in five-year waves

The Scholarship is the brainchild of Deborah Rowland, director of Public Affairs at Sodexo UK (pictured). A former IWFM Facilities Manager of the Year, she has been diagnosed with an advanced cancer, and instigated the initiative with a donation of her own money. Introduced in 2024, and backed by the IWFM Foundation, the scheme provides disadvantaged young

The government organisation says its core values of ‘community, commitment, collaboration, and colleagues – the 4Cs’ – guide its ‘mission to be an employer of choice, and to represent the diversity of the communities it serves’.  NHSPS said: “Three years ago, a significant imbalance was recognized at NHSPS’ Hard FM workforce, and the business promptly

Roger Hardwick (left) has joined as Northern Installations director, Graham Evans (centre) as Northern Service manager, and Carl Goodman (right) as senior estimator. The business has also enhanced its National Service Team with the addition of a further seven engineers, who will strengthen SHJ’s overall UK coverage. All the new recruits have many years of

  The turnkey solution it provided brought together design, products, installation, commissioning, and service. Part of the Government’s New Hospital Programme, and operated by the Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, the MMUH is part of the New Hospital Programme, and one of the largest hospitals to open in the UK in the last decade.