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Mobile treatment unit offers ‘more accessible’ treatment
A mobile cancer care unit extendable hydraulically from its sides to create two consultation rooms, and designed to enable patients in more remote communities to receive treatments closer to home, is to be operated by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
One key goal will be to help it achieve NHS England’s 62-day cancer target for at least 85% of patients to start a first treatment within two months of an urgent GP referral. Charity, Hope for Tomorrow, which had the new ‘world- first’ mobile unit specially designed and developed for it by Bence Coachworks, launched its first mobile cancer care unit in 2007. Twelve of the 14 units it now has with the addition of its first with hydraulic sides are allocated to Trusts, with two kept in reserve. In ‘a unique partnership with the NHS’, the extendable mobile unit will visit communities to offer accessible daily clinics, cancer screening, education programmes, and treatments including oral and intravenous chemotherapy, Paxman scalp cooling, flushing of PICC lines, and blood transfusions.
Each consultation room will be fully connected via digital facilities, enabling patients and staff to ‘connect remotely’ to the main hospital. Being attached to its HGV chassis means the unit is fully
AR headset claimed to ‘take construction to next level’
XYZ Reality, the ‘transformational construction technology’ company behind Holosite, reportedly the world’s first Engineering-Grade Augmented Reality platform, claims its ‘ground-breaking’ new ‘The Atom’ device is ‘the most accurate AR headset for construction’.
mobile. Throughout the COVID crisis, available reserve units were deployed to support NHS Trusts.
Hope for Tomorrow receives no statutory funding, and relies entirely on donations from the public, corporate organisations, and other private funding bodies. The latest unit’s construction was made possible by a £747,764 grant from Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS). It has been named ‘Christine’, in memory of the charity’s founder, Christine Mills MBE, who died in 2018 from cancer.
‘Future-proofed’ orthopaedic facility
George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton has acquired an additional modular building from Wernick Buildings, to fulfil the demands for orthopaedic procedures.
The single-storey, 786 m2 building,
manufactured offsite at Wernick’s specialist South West Wales facility, links to a 30-bed ward building supplied last March. The latest building is a hybrid volumetric theatre suite developed specifically for this project, but also to tackle NHS pressures for fast-track
theatre builds. Wernick said: “Unique to modular construction, its concrete floor system delivers a 3 m floor to ceiling height for HTM and HBN compliance.” The project called for Wernick Buildings to work closely with the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust to design and construct a fully HTM and HBN-compliant solution which included the specialist fit-out of the theatres. The 55 m2
operating theatres feature
MAT UCV skirtless canopies, ‘maximising their spacious and modern feel’. Future- proofing for laparoscopic surgery was also considered.
Wernick further future-proofed the design to allow the Trust to expand both the number of theatres and the recovery area, and add a second storey, should needs dictate. Wernick said: “With its twin theatres, the building is an impressive addition to the hospital estate. Clinical staff say it is a great place to work from, giving extremely positive feedback for the standard and quality of the build.”
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Coral Butler, Group head of Digitally enabled Lean Project Delivery at PM Group, an early-adopter of XYZ Reality’s HoloSite, commented: “We’ve been working with XYZ Reality since the beginning, and have already been impressed with how its powerful AR technology has significantly increased efficiency and improved quality across multiple mission-critical projects. The Atom has been developed by construction, for construction. (Founder and CEO) David Mitchell and the team have an acute understanding about the challenges and pressures on site, and the frustrations presented by the validation process. This engineering tool is essential for project management, delivering benefits for everyone from planner to asset owner.”
The Atom combines a safety-certified hardhat, augmented reality displays, and the ‘in-built computing power’ of HoloSite. The device ‘positions BIM on site to millimetre accuracy’. XYZ Reality said: “This engineering-grade tool makes the entire construction journey safer, smarter, and more efficient, reducing waste, de-risking processes, and delivering bottom line benefits for contractor and asset owner alike.” A ‘disruptive technology company’, XYZ Reality has ‘moved from an early access phase to global commercial availability’ following a successful £20 m funding round last June. It said: “On track for 300 per cent growth in 2022, the launch places XYZ Reality on its trajectory to significantly increase its global market share, and represents a commercial milestone to becoming a market-leading construction technology company.”
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