With input from the Trust’s associate director of Engineering, Louise Clark, Nigel Otter, Marketing manager EMEA at IDEXX, discusses Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s successful use of two of the company’s rapid microbiology systems to test for, and identify, Legionella and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ‘in-house’, in the water systems of its two largest London

Associate director at AA Projects, Sarah Butler, discusses a new resource, ‘Building for Health: The role of Estates in reducing health inequalities’, created by NHS England, and developed through desk-based research and engagement with a range of stakeholders. Its principal aim is to demonstrate how, as an anchor organisation, the NHS can use and manage

PPL Training, one of the UK’s leading providers of Safe Systems of Work and technical compliance training – including for healthcare estates management and healthcare engineering personnel – has recently expanded its already wide-ranging training offer with a number of new fire safety training courses. On a recent visit to the company’s impressive York facilities,

The pace of scientific research in the global development of new cancer treatments is astonishing, with precision medicines dramatically improving survivability rates; these have doubled since 1970. Immuno-oncology therapies empower the immune system to recognise and react to tumour cells, and biomarkerguided therapies target the mutation in tumour cells at a molecular level, in effect

Speaking in the opening ‘Workforce’-themed keynote at last October’s Healthcare Estates 2022 conference, Sir David Behan, Chair of Health Education England, and Nick Hulme, Chief Executive at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, gave their standpoints on some of the key workforce challenges facing both the healthcare engineering and estate management sector, and

The NHS has a legacy of ageing properties, many of which have ventilation systems where it is not possible to gain access for effective cleaning or mandatory annual safety inspection and testing of fire dampers. This lack of access is not a new issue, and needs to be afforded much higher priority on risk registers,

The COVID pandemic has raised awareness that hygiene is critical, and has highlighted the risk of infection spread when touch surface cleanliness is overlooked. However, manual cleaning is not always consistent, and surfaces assumed to be safe may actually be contaminated. It is well documented that only 5 per cent of people wash their hands

Within the Estates Department at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a major trauma centre in north-east England, the COVID pandemic placed significant pressure on engineering services, highlighting the need to maintain and improve the resilience and reliability of all key M&E plant. Now, in 2022, the new medical gas plant, developed by SHJ

A Net Zero and Sustainability keynote session on the second day of Healthcare Estates 2022 included a chastening look at the energy generation challenge facing the UK in the short-to-medium term, by Dame Sue Ion, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. One of her key messages was a need for a considerable stepping

In an interesting session opening the second day of Healthcare Estates 2022, four scientists and academics discussed hospital ventilation – including some of the key learnings for hospital engineers in the wake of COVID-19. They focused especially on improving infection resilience in the hospital environment, and tackling poorly ventilated spaces. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports

The presentation of awards in 12 categories, an after-dinner speech by England’s most capped female hockey player, and the chance to make new acquaintances, talk over the first day’s events, and renew contacts face-to-face, were among the highlights of last month’s Healthcare Estates 2022 IHEEM Awards Dinner in Manchester. Held on the evening of 4

Last month saw the Institute’s first ever female President officially take office. Alison Ryan, a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ engineering experience in healthcare, took over the chain of office from Paul Fenton at the Institute’s 2022 AGM at Healthcare Estates. Before the show, HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, met up with her to discuss

The introduction of ICT into hospitals is progressing explosively, but this has led to numerous challenges for the engineers and administrators involved in facility construction. According to a survey by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), about 50% of Japanese hospitals (those with inpatient facilities of 20 beds or more) have medical telemetry

Speaking at the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering’s 2022 Congress in Toronto, IHEEM’s CEO, Pete Sellars, and President, Paul Fenton, argued that the planning and construction of ‘siloed’ hospitals ‘is over’. Their key point was that ‘the way we measure hospital workload is outmoded – what matters now is the wider health and social care

Featuring a fixed laminar flow outlet in a compact design, with a novel adapter mechanism, this latest addition to the company’s popular Medical Water Filter range incorporates the same T-safe technology that is trusted to deliver safe water in over 350 hospitals in the UK and Ireland. The all new Medical Tap Filter Fixed Position offers