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COVID-19 highlighted gaps in public knowledge about infection prevention, emphasising the importance of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in healthcare design. In this first article in a three-part series, associate director for Healthcare at HLM Architects, Neil Orpwood, discusses IPC in healthcare design, and specifically the importance of early collaboration among designers, architects, and IPC teams in creating safe healthcare environments. He also asks how our healthcare IPC design has adapted four years on from COVID-19.

Fusion21 has announced the renewal of its national Workplace and Facilities Management Framework, worth up to £800 million over four years, and is inviting bids from interested suppliers providing regional or national coverage.

In September’s HEJ we ran the first half of an article on an interesting and forthright discussion at a roundtable event held in mid-June at the Leeds offices of solicitors, Clarion. This covered some of the key elements in, and far-reaching ramifications of, the Building Safety Act 2022, which came into force in October 2023 – both for the healthcare construction chain, and healthcare engineering and estate management personnel. Here HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports on the event’s second half. https://lnkd.in/eFjhKwxz Participants : Chair, Steve Batson, Studio director and Sector Lead for Healthcare, Stephen George + Partners LLP. Phil Morrison, Partner, Clarion Solicitors. Stephen Crow, Business Development director, Clarion Solicitors. Trevor Rogers , Regulatory specialist, LABC. Andrew Varley, Director, International Facilities, STERIS UK. Dean P., Associate, Stephen George + Partners LLP. Stuart Dalton, Programme manager, Hive Projects. Constance Campbell, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hoare Lea. Andrew Buckley, Design Director, Curtins. Jonathan Baillie, Editor, Health Estate Journal. 

The Department of Health and Social Care has launched what its dubs ‘a major crackdown on waste in the NHS to save millions of pounds a year’, with the publication of a new strategy – the Design for Life roadmap – designed to ‘radically cut the number of single-use medical devices in the health service and reduce our reliance on foreign imports’.

Morrison Construction Building Central has hosted a topping out event for the Health Innovation Hub project in Glasgow.

Andrew Gwynne, Minister for Public Health and Prevention, and MP for Gorton and Denton, attended the recent opening of the new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Crown Point Shopping Retail centre in Denton in Tameside, together with NHS Trust, council, and independent healthcare provider leaders. The diagnosis and treatment of a range of conditions, including cancer and heart disease, is set to get quicker, thanks to the opening of the centre. 

Construction has commenced on an ‘energy-efficient’ Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) in Hereford, which will provide a calming and reassuring environment for diagnostic imaging and testing. Architype Medical Architecture Wye Valley NHS Trust

Today’s healthcare facilities have increasingly complex, and equally diverse, electrical power requirements, and indeed a reliable and continuous electrical supply is critical both to ensuring uninterrupted clinical activity, and to keeping plant and equipment running optimally. HEJ’s Editor, Jonathan Baillie, discusses with Graeme Tucker of Power Control Ltd. Click here to view the interview: https://lnkd.in/ew2kGE7p

Extremely well-known for its expertise in medical gas systems, BeaconMedaes UK is increasingly keen to be recognised for its contribution to, and impact on, sustainability in healthcare. It is thus focusing on a range of initiatives to reduce its environmental footprint, ‘foster social responsibility, and ensure economic resilience’. Health Estate Journal Editor, Jonathan Baillie, met up at this year’s Healthcare Estates event in Manchester with Paul O., the company’s Sustainable Solution Sales Manager, to discover more, and to hear about an exciting new addition to the company’s clinical product range.