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5 COMMENT: An exciting time to be a healthcare engineer 5 COVER STORY: Tailored pendant solutions for optimised clinical environments 7
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26 New NHS England guidance on Trusts’ obligations NHS England has recently published several new guidance documents to help NHS Trusts better understand and comply with the Building Safety Act as regards both new and existing buildings undergoing construction work.
29 Re-inspiring the workforce requires leadership skills At Healthcare Estates 2024, three speakers representing large organisations – NHS England, multinational professional services partnership, EY, and the healthcare division of Siemens AG, discussed some of today’s major workforce challenges and opportunities.
37 The varying routes to registration highlighted The opening Day One keynote at Healthcare Estates 2024 saw three complementary presentations on the importance of engineering, the challenges of recruiting more engineers to help address skills shortages, and work to grow the engineering workforce, enhance training and career development, and ensure high professional standards.
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Tool ‘tracks’ IPC design, derogation, and risk HLM associate director for healthcare, Neil Orpwood, explains how the practice developed an improved internal design tool to help its architects implement, manage, and track, IPC design, derogation, and risk.
47 Prescribing a greater role for ‘integrated hospitals’ Simon Lovegrove, CEO of MHealth, believes integrated hospitals achieve greater efficiency, and create more opportunity to ‘draw the healthcare facility into the community’, while enhancing continuity of care.
53 Ensuring water safety in the drive to Net Zero Anil Madan, Non-Residential Marketing manager at Ideal Standard UK and Armitage Shanks, reports on an Armitage Shanks 2024 Water Safety Forum hosted at the London Design and Specification Centre, focusing on topical healthcare water issues.
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59 Ahead of its time: the rise of the all-electric hospital A recently published Schneider Electric ‘white paper’, The Rise of the All-Electric Hospital, based on research conducted by its global solutions team, analyses the impact of electrifying a large acute care hospital, and some of the key considerations.
63 The vending technology offering healthier choices David Llewellyn, CEO of the Vending & Automated Retail Association, discusses the features and benefits of the latest food and drink vending machines in healthcare facilities.
67 Hospital media ‘making a meaningful difference’ As more NHS Trusts refresh ageing entertainment technology, they are also exploring ways to inform, educate, and stimulate patients, explains Dean Moody, Healthcare Services director at Airwave Healthcare.
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71 Positive impact of colour and cues from nature Lisa Ward, Product Line manager (UK & France) at Jeld-Wen – which designs, manufactures, and distributes interior and exterior doors, windows, and related building products, explores the health benefits of incorporating colour and cues from nature.
76 The case for an effective Operations Manual A look at the importance of healthcare estate management teams maintaining up-to-date and sufficiently comprehensive Operations Manuals for key engineering and EFM disciplines.
79 A ‘flexible, cost-effective’ route to extra capacity The MD of ModuleCo Healthcare, a UK modular healthcare building provider, explains how modular construction – utilising an Activity Based Revenue procurement solution – enables NHS Trusts to ‘access state- of-the-art healthcare facilities without the huge capital investments typically required’.
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