Held at the iconic Liverpool Medical Institute, the CSC’s Study Day was opened by Jimmy Walker, Chairman of the CSC. The programme provided some thought-provoking presentations on reducing healthcare-associated infections — from the use of probiotics in hospital environments, and balancing infection control with sustainability, to the risks associated with prion diseases and the challenges

Located on the south end of Vancouver Island, Victoria General Hospital (VGH) is a 347-bedded acute care facility. The 1981-constructed hospital comprises a main diagnostic and treatment (D&T) podium and two seven-storey patient towers. Over the years, the facility has been expanded and renovated, and includes a new Emergency Department. The hospital is supplied from

Located on the south end of Vancouver Island, Victoria General Hospital (VGH) is a 347-bedded acute care facility. The 1981-constructed hospital comprises a main diagnostic and treatment (D&T) podium and two seven-storey patient towers. Over the years, the facility has been expanded and renovated, and includes a new Emergency Department. The hospital is supplied from

Cyber risk in health continues to grow, with more and more attacks being reported. Attacks can cause disruption to mission critical services, loss of data, and breaches of privacy, but unique to hospitals are the risks to our patients and staff arising due to the co-existence of medical devices on modern unified and shared network

As BioClad enters a new chapter, with a recent manufacturing extension in late 2023, our focus sharpens on sustainability and the company’s pivotal role in shaping the future of construction materials. With a steadfast commitment to reducing its environmental footprint, BioClad has embarked on a journey towards greater sustainability in manufacturing. With our production line

Regulations tend to move forward fastest in the period following a disaster. In the years since the Grenfell Tower fire, with ever greater scrutiny on the fire safety of building materials, Legrand’s cable management team has frequently dealt with questions about the fire rating of our cable management systems. Rapidly implemented regulatory change in response

Having recently started a new job, by way of some sort of initiation I was tasked with writing an article for Health Estate Journal. While searching through the archives of the magazine seeking inspiration, I came across an article titled ‘The Missing Health Technical Memoranda’, first published on 3 November 2006. This article centred on

Any healthcare setting must run like clockwork to always ensure patient safety. At the heart of hospital services, hidden away from patients, most staff, and the public, are plant rooms. An area that could be described as the ‘engine room’ of any hospital, plant rooms transport water and other mission-critical supplies around the building. This

James Donagain, head of Healthcare Compliance at Skanska UK, is relentless in his commitment to upholding rigorous and sustainable hygiene standards within healthcare facilities. His tireless pursuit led him to confront the persistent challenge of Pseudomonas aeruginosa contamination, in particular at the inherently vulnerable periphery of domestic water systems. Following a journey of discovery, James

Giving a mid-morning presentation at the online conference, titled ‘The next steps for Net Zero and sustainability in the NHS’, Lord Markham was introduced by session Chair, Alifia Chakera, who is head of Pharmaceutical Sustainability, Health Infrastructure and Sustainability Division, at the Scottish Government. She explained that the Infrastructure and Sustainability team is ‘a relatively

Giving the opening presentation at the half-day online conference, titled ‘The next steps for Net Zero and sustainability in the NHS’, Dr Pinto was introduced by the Chair for the first half of the event, MP for Crewe & Nantwich, Dr Kieran Mullan — who before being elected as an MP in 2019, was an

“If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise”. Those are the often repeated lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy that were added to the tune of The Teddy Bears Picnic in 1932, by the Irish songwriter, to the tune composed by John Walter Bratton, in 1907. While not as old as this

Preventing infections arising from the built environment in a new healthcare facility is a different entity to the traditional understanding of infection prevention and control (an Infection Control team patrolling the wards, and adherence to handwashing protocols etc). Any stakeholder can inadvertently take an action which results in a patient acquiring infection. This could, for

Great office spaces are more than just the bricks and mortar used to build them. They are built with occupants in mind, to create places people want to work in that encourage collaboration and productivity. A laboratory is no different. Our brief as MEP and lab design consultants for the London Institute of Medical Sciences’

HEJ’s readers will be acutely aware of the growing NHS building maintenance backlog, and with an ageing healthcare estate on the one hand, and ever higher expectations for care on the other, many – and especially, older, healthcare buildings – have reached a condition where refurbishment or reconfiguration to bring them up to modern standards