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New framework for Scottish construction projects
Health Facilities Scotland (HFS) has launched ‘Frameworks Scotland 3’, for delivery of new-build, refurbishment, and backlog maintenance projects across NHS Scotland.
The Frameworks Scotland 3 model will operate over a five-year period for publicly-funded health and social care construction projects. HFS says it offers ‘a simplified procurement process for these programmes to achieve the best value and quality, shared learning, and overall peace of mind’.
Six ‘leading construction firms’ have been appointed as Principal Supply Chain Partners (PSCPs): n Balfour Beatty. n John Graham Construction. n Kier Construction. n McLaughlin & Harvey. n RMF Health. n BAM Construction, serving as a ‘reserve’.
BAM Construction, ‘as the reserve PSCP’, will provide resilience in the framework if one of the other five PSCPs is unable to participate in a project mini-competition. It is estimated that Frameworks Scotland 3 will deliver up to £650 million of healthcare projects, ‘building on the success of Frameworks Scotland 2’, which has seen projects delivered, or in delivery, with a total value of £630 m.
Trainer's April degree intake full
Gordon James, director of Health Facilities Scotland, said: “Our NHS is under immense pressure due to the current pandemic, and the need for future-proof healthcare facilities is paramount. Frameworks Scotland 3 provides our customers with peace of mind, knowing we have a team of leading construction firms vetted and eager to support new-build and refurbishment projects. Our team has an in-depth knowledge of the framework, and provides a wide range of technical and professional advice to client project teams throughout Scotland.” The artist’s impression is of the Baird Family Hospital and the ANCHOR Centre project, a £233.2 million building development at the Foresterhill Health Campus in Aberdeen, which will see two new buildings opened in 2023 ‘to support and enhance clinical care’, with delivery under Frameworks Scotland 2.
‘Bite-sized’ CPD training from Isopharm
Isopharm will next month launch online training for sterile services, endoscopy, decontamination, and validation engineers, ‘offering a platform where all levels of staff can access a vast array of training modules written by industry experts’.
It says that while it has been well- known for some 20 years for its decontamination process validation systems and UKAS laboratory services for water and microbiological testing, many may not know that for the past few years it has supported the dental industry via an online CPD training platform with almost 70,000 registered users.
Isopharm explained: “Training modules are ‘bite-sized’, and last under 60 minutes each, allowing for regular short training sessions without any impact on departmental productivity. Modules will cover all areas of SSD and EDU, providing the information that staff need to know, and explaining why processes are completed in specific ways. Once a module has been completed, there is a short assessment to confirm the staff member’s competency, and, once passed, they then receive an online certificate.”
Department managers will also have full visibility of staff progress via their online staff register and training dashboard, a service provided free with their subscription..
It added: “With training a key motivator for staff, our department- based subscription system will enable managers to give staff access to their own training account, and thus another way to demonstrate achievement within their role.”
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This spring Eastwood Park has welcomed its largest cohort yet onto its ‘unique’ healthcare engineering degrees, with places for the April 2021 intake now full. Following ‘a challenging 12 months’, staff say they are looking forward to seeing a new group of healthcare engineers and estates and facilities management staff ‘take this valuable stepping stone in their careers’, and to welcoming back several current learners for the second year of their studies, or advancing onto the BSc management degree.
Eastwood Park said: “We have been working hard to ensure we continue to support the healthcare sector through these important degrees, developed in line with the NHS Estates and FM Workforce Strategy and professional body feedback. They offer a professional qualification for healthcare engineers that specifically covers the context, technologies, specialist services, patient safety issues, and regulations, required in a hospital.” Training manager, Lisa Slevin, said: “It’s hugely pleasing to see the healthcare sector continue recognising the value of Eastwood Park’s degrees, five years on from where we began delivery in partnership with Staffordshire University. They are so much more than ‘just a degree’ – they develop learners’ skills and knowledge, not purely in healthcare engineering and technology terms, but also in enhancing their skills and aptitudes as reflective and developing professionals.”
Eastwood Park says there will be a second intake this year ‘to compensate for the disruption caused by the pandemic in 2020’. Applications for an October 2021 start are now being taken. Potential learners can choose from: n A Foundation Degree in Hospital Engineering;
n A Foundation Degree in Medical Equipment Technologies;
n A BSc (Hons) in Management of Healthcare Engineering Technologies & Facilities.
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