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Conference highlights infection risks from sinks

Concerns over waterborne infection risks in UK hospitals have hit the headlines over the past decade. Pseudomonas bacteria were found in the water systems of Belfast’s new state-of-the-art maternity hospital;1 21 patients were infected by bacteria in the water supply at the Royal Papworth Hospital,2 and an infection outbreak in the child cancer wards at

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Apr

‘Transformative projects’ ongoing in Birmingham

At the heart of these initiatives is a focus on reducing anxiety, improving navigation, and fostering community engagement. The hospitals are working closely with patients, families, and advisory groups, to ensure that every improvement reflects their input and enhances their experience. Sustainability is a key consideration throughout these projects. From using ground source heat pumps,

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Apr

Money and carbon-saving benefits for OUH project

The total expenditure – including £29.8 m received from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), was just over £38 m. The Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS) is initiated by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and delivered by Salix Finance. It provides grants for public sector

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Apr

Transformation in the eraof systems, place, and AI

This year promises to be both exciting and challenging for the global health and care sector. Governments worldwide are grappling with increasing healthcare demands, a shortage of skilled professionals, and rising treatment costs. Traditional efficiency and gatekeeping programmes have fallen short, prompting a shift towards integrated care models, localised and decentralised care, and a stronger

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Mar

Transformation in the era of systems, place, and AI

This year promises to be both exciting and challenging for the global health and care sector. Governments worldwide are grappling with increasing healthcare demands, a shortage of skilled professionals, and rising treatment costs. Traditional efficiency and gatekeeping programmes have fallen short, prompting a shift towards integrated care models, localised and decentralised care, and a stronger

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Mar

Harnessing the healing power of nature

With the increase in ‘social prescribing’ aimed at easing the burden on the NHS, there is renewed focus on the health benefits of gardens, and particularly on the physical act of gardening, among healthcare professionals and those within the care sector. Joshua Clark, Estimator from landscaping contractor, Gavin Jones, part of Nurture Group, explores existing

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Mar

Getting the best value out of PPP assets

There are an estimated 156 PPP (public private partnership) healthcare schemes expiring in the next 24 years. These assets will effectively move back into NHS estate managers’ portfolios, with the necessary asset management, maintenance, and lifecycle replacement commitments that other parts of the NHS estate warrant. For many NHS Trusts who have worked with private

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Mar

How modular construction is helping local healthcare

Finding out what is wrong with a patient is vital to treating them as early as possible. Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) provide essential tests and scans to patients, allowing for faster and more accurate diagnoses. They are a crucial component of a modern healthcare system, providing patients with access to planned diagnostic care, closer to

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Mar

Exploring strategies for generating social value

The concept of social value has gained significant traction within the healthcare sector over the past decade, not least in the management of healthcare estates. Social value refers to the broader social, economic, and environmental benefits that organisations can deliver for the communities they serve. For NHS hospital Trusts, embedding social value in estate development

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Mar

Clean air, clean future – choosing the right system

Ulrik Vadstrup, Regional Europe Sales manager for HVACR at ABB Drive Products, acknowledges that while choosing the right HVACR system remains a complex challenge, opting for drive and motor (DM) packages, as opposed to electronically commutated (EC) fans, makes the greatest sense for healthcare estates and facilities teams – given such components’ circularity, durability, and

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Mar

Theatre settings for an increasingly digital age

Last October, Reinsberg Group, the medtech holding of Prague-based private equity firm, BHM Group, acquired a majority stake in Brandon Medical – as ‘part of its strategy’ to build a strong group of independent European medical manufacturers. Simultaneously, Brandon, a long-established independent UK manufacturer and supplier of theatre and ICU equipment, unveiled ‘a bold rebrand’

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Mar

Underlining a growing need for ‘digital literacy’

Digital transformation (DT) is the process of adoption and implementation of digital technology by an organisation to create new or modify existing products, services, and operations, by translating business processes into a digital format.1 DT is not an option, it’s an inevitability. Bearing this in mind, it’s in all our interests to be prepared and

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Mar

APs – a full-time job or just ‘an added extra’?

The assessment, appointment, and acceptance of the Authorised Person role can be seen as a ‘tick-box exercise’, and many APs find that the role is considered as an ‘added extra’ to existing duties and roles. Here Andrew Poplett, an IHEEM-registered Authorising Engineer for both water and specialist ventilation services, discusses the extent and nature of

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Mar

Who is best to carry out ventilation verification?

At Healthcare Estates 2024, ventilation verification professionals, Dr Louise Webb, AE (Ventilation) of DRLC, and Gareth Twynam, managing director at AirisQ, discussed the challenges of ensuring that the air-handling plant supplying clean air to operating theatres and other critical areas is adequately monitored and managed. Here they explore the issues that annual ventilation plant checks

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Mar

Better indoor air quality in health buildings

Historically, cities have been viewed as unnatural environments for humanity, representing a departure from rural life, where clean air and abundant resources are prevalent. Jean-Jacques Rousseau described the isolation experienced in urban settings by characterising towns as ‘the abyss of the human species’. He dismissed cities as ‘pestilential to man’s morals, health, and liberties’. As

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Feb
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