RECENT NEWS

A review of mental healthcare provided by phone and video call during the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that while many service-users could continue accessing some support, the shift to remote care presented ‘significant barriers' to certain groups.

Washroom controls specialist, Rada, has announced the appointment of Natasha Nugent as the company’s new UK Specification Sales manager.

Security technology group, Giesecke+Devrient, and connected worker technology specialist, Nymi, have developed a wristband-based biometric system that gives organisations and their staff ‘convenient and secure access to their entire workplace'.

To take action against modern slavery’, Kier claims to be UK’s first contractor to train its Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs) to spot the signs of modern slavery and exploitation.

A new campaign to tackle work-related rights within the construction industry is launched this month (November), as experts say they fear ‘workers’ rights are being dismissed’.

XYZ Reality, the ‘transformational construction technology’ company behind Holosite, reportedly the world’s first Engineering-Grade Augmented Reality platform, has launched what it claims is ‘the most accurate AR headset for construction'.

Construction has started on a new £8 m inpatient eating disorders unit at St Ann’s Hospital in Sandbanks for Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust.

Final approval has been given for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) to build a new adult mental health unit at North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH).

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust says it has become the UK's first NHS hospital Trust to officially become’ Carbon Literate’, allowing it to 'take an important step towards its goal of becoming one of the UK’s greenest NHS Trusts’.

A Glasgow-based company is producing a ‘pioneering’ hygienic door handle which it says ‘eliminates bugs within seconds, reducing the cross-transmission of infectious bacteria and viruses’.

In an Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 speech to Parliament today (Wednesday 27 October), the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, noted that investment was growing, public services were improving, public finances were ‘stabilising’, and wages were rising.

A new partnership to help NHS Trusts develop and implement their decarbonisation strategies has been launched, as senior NHS leaders say decarbonising the NHS estate is ‘fundamentally not complex’, but that more data and greater guidance are needed.

VINCI's IHP team, a joint venture between VINCI Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine, has officially broken ground at the site of a new 40-bed specialist low secure hospital for people with learning disabilities at Maghull Health Park, Merseyside.

In 2020/2021 the total cost of running the NHS estate in England was £10.2 billion – a 4.8 per cent increase on 2019/20, with total energy usage from all sources across this estate 11.4 billion kWh, 1.6 per higher than in the previous year.

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50, and male construction workers are almost four times more likely to take their own life than the average of those working in any other industry or profession.

Europe’s ‘first carbon-neutral’ hospital, a mental health facility replacing a Victorian era building, and a single hospital site bringing two hospitals together – all in Bradford – form part of an ambitious funding bid submitted to the Government.

Mott MacDonald has made three new appointments to its UK Healthcare team – Steven Bentley as Healthcare technical lead, Alison Ryan as deputy Healthcare technical lead, and Andy Witchell as Strategy and Development lead for Health.

The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust is the latest healthcare organisation to benefit from Triton2, a patented, high-security masterkey system from Assa Abloy.

Sewell Estates has announced Claire Harrison as the new CEO of Parallel Data Intelligence.

Procurement organisation and social enterprise, Fusion21, has announced the launch of its national Decarbonisation Framework, worth up to £750 million over a four-year period, and is now inviting bids from interested SMEs and contractors.