The 16-bed facility is based at the Whitehouse Health Centre (pictured), and opened to patients  last December, ahead of an official opening 29 January this year. The Whitehouse Dialysis Unit, run by Oxford Kidney Unit, is in addition to the Renal Unit located at Milton Keynes University Hospital. Before the new renal dialysis unit opened,

NHS Property Services (NHSPS) is working closely with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board to deliver the scope of works, projected to start this year. Planners voted five to one in favour of the redevelopment with no additional conditions to be added. The section 106 agreement is currently under review, and is expected

The Department for Health and Social Care announced last year that it is funding 13 new Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) – including one in the centre of Nottingham, to help reduce the backlog of patients waiting for diagnostic tests. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has been working closely with colleagues at Nottingham City Council, who

Since the first phase of the Cheshire & Merseyside Surgical Centre at Clatterbridge Hospital opened in late 2022 with two new surgical theatres, the hospital has treated an extra 3,000 elective surgery patients.  In September 2022, with the new funding announced – including for the building of two further theatres as part of phase two,

The £3.2 m reconfiguration, funded by Community Health Partnerships, will provide a modern and fit-for-purpose training ground for dental students from the university, while giving residents in north-east London quicker and easier access to free dental care within a primary care setting. The new clinic will provide capacity for 20 chairs, accommodating 300 dental students

The Trovex concept ward illustration features five key solutions: Hygidoor, Diamond wall cladding, Resilience wall protection, Hygipod IPS, and Hygipod MSU. There’s a closer look at each on the back cover. Each product has been designed to complement the others, culminating in a unified hygienic finish. The ease with which these products – all of

The ‘transformation’ was designed by Medical Architecture for The Trust, and the works delivered by Robertson Construction North East. The work forms part of the Newcastle Hospitals Internal Improvement Programme, which is a result of the Trust’s Estates Strategy, developed in partnership with Medical Architecture. In addition to the continuation of clinical ward refurbishments, this

The £4.8 million project is part of the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at DBTH, and provides a range of new staff and patient facilities. They include a new reception and waiting area with new WCs, as well as a discharge lounge, recovery ward, consultant and ancillary rooms, and staff rooms. The building also benefits from

MTX is progressing groundworks on site while simultaneously modular sections of the building are under construction within a factory production environment, using MMC principles to complete the new facility ‘faster, safer, greener, and more cost-effectively’. The three-storey building will include a dedicated breast care diagnostic and outpatient unit providing a ‘one stop’ service for patients,

It said: “This strategic partnership heralds the introduction of the groundbreaking Nitrous Oxide Detector into the UK and Irish markets, a move set to redefine staff wellbeing in healthcare environments.” BeaconMedaes UK says the Nitrous Oxide Detector ‘stands at the forefront of environmental monitoring solutions’. It said: “Designed with precision and the healthcare sector’s unique

The Patient Safety Partner (PSP) is a new role for both private and NHS healthcare settings under the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), which aims to establish a systems based approach to responding and learning from patient safety incidents. Jabeen Ahmad will have ‘a fundamental role in supporting PSIRF within the hospital –

Stéphane Le Roy, President, Surgical Workflows, explained: “With the growth of our chemistry production volumes, and the density of our innovation roadmap, we took the decision to invest into a larger, more modern facility. It will allow us to serve more hospitals globally, provide a better work environment for our teams, and improve our innovation

Based in the hospital’s Maternity Unit at King’s, the Peace Bereavement Suite is the department’s first dedicated space offering comfort and privacy for bereaved families who wish to spend time with their babies in an environment that is close to the medical team. The Suite is named after Peace, a devoted King’s midwife who died

The new facility will enable the hospital to double its capacity, significantly improve the patient experience, and reduce waiting times. The endoscopy facility is located in the former maternity unit which moved in 2021 to Grange University Hospital in Llanfrechfa, Cwmbran, the new, ‘multi award-winning’ specialist critical care centre also designed by BDP. BDP worked

Published earlier in January, the report demonstrates that the business – which owns and manages around 10 per cent of the NHS estate – exceeded its initial financial target of £32.5 m by over £12 million, and has now delivered a cumulative total of over £295 m in savings to the NHS since 2017. It also