RECENT NEWS

In a UK first, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with mental health charity Off The Ropes to open the NHS’s first on-site boxing gym, located at the Trust’s Goldie Leigh site in London.

Willmott Dixon has commissioned comprehensive fire safety tests for cavity barriers on Cross-Laminated Timber to eliminate a technical gap that has created uncertainty and delays on cross-laminated timber (CLT) projects across the sector.

A free public exhibition of more than 50 artworks showcasing the best service user and staff art, music and literature from across Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP), is being held this week.

Funding to modernise intensive care and cardiac units at St Peter’s Hospital.

Britplas is incorporating therapeutic and recovery-focused design elements into secure healthcare perimeter systems, aiming to broaden how fencing is used within clinical environments.

Kingston and Richmond CAMHS join South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust revealed its ‘Room to Breathe’ garden at Amersham Hospital.

Assa Abloy becomes D&D Technologies distributor in UK & Europe.

Manufacturer Vernacare has launched its Vortex Air+ Human Waste Disposal Macerator.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust drives digital transformation of mental health facilities.

UVC device helps to reduce formation of bacteria in waste pipes.

Founding director named for new Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) have unveiled a vibrant new mural at the Long Fox Unit's Dune Ward, designed to bring therapeutic benefit to service users living with Dementia.

The Bristol-based Forest of Avon charity has been awarded a £15,000 grant to support its 2025 woodland wellbeing project.

Accessible architects Adaptation Design have appointed occupational therapist Kate Sheehan to enhance clinical expertise.

With the UK set to record its warmest summer on record, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is calling for urgent action to tackle the growing number of buildings that overheat.

A new briefing from the Centre for Mental Health highlighted the most effective ways of supporting people in a mental health crisis. The recommendations include ‘updating estates which are no longer fit for purpose’.

ABCA Systems, a North Tyneside-based provider of fire protection, security, and communications systems, has acquired RAAM Construction, a well-established provider of fire protection, construction, maintenance, and repair services.

As ‘one of the building automation sector’s leading drivers of better female representation’, the Building Controls Industry Association’s (BCIA) Young Engineers Network (YEN) recently co-hosted the 'Together We Engineer' event – ‘a thought-provoking discussion on empowering women and the next generation’.

K1 Investment Management LLC (K1), reportedly ‘one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies’, has announced what it dubs ‘a strategic investment’ to combine SINGU and Micad, two European-based providers of real estate management software.