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23 ‘Rugby legend’ entertains guests at Gala Dinner Nearly 250 guests gathered at the Celtic Manor Golf Club near Newport on 7 May for a Gala Awards Dinner on the first night of the IHEEM Wales Regional Conference and Exhibition 2025. The after-dinner speaker was Sir Gareth Edwards CBE, arguably Wales’s greatest ever rugby scrum-half.
28 Ensuring that Wales has a fit-for-purpose estate Speaking at May’s IHEEM Wales Regional Conference at the ICC Wales, Stuart Douglas, Director of NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership – Specialist Estates Services, focused on some of the key priorities to ensure that Wales has a fit-for-purpose healthcare estate.
31 ‘Five Step’ approach to repurposing council space With around 6.5 million people on NHS waiting lists in England, and a limiting factor in reducing the list a lack of space for consultations and procedures, a look at repurposing existing vacant local authority properties for healthcare provision.
36 From supermarket to health and wellness hub An international healthcare consultancy is helping a local community bring healthcare to its high street by refurbishing a derelict supermarket in Helston in Cornwall.
39 A ‘flexible, cost-effective’ route to extra capacity The MD of ModuleCo Healthcare explains how modular construction, utilising a usage-based revenue agreement solution, enables NHS Trusts to ‘access state-of-the-art healthcare facilities without the huge capital investments typically required’.
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Maintaining the Golden Thread is ‘fundamental’ David Hemming, a highly experienced Chartered Civil Engineer within the NHS Shared Business Services Consulting team, says the so-called ‘Golden Thread’ – a complete digital record of information about a building, ‘represents a fundamental cultural shift in how buildings are designed, constructed, and maintained’.
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47 Better healthcare using data-driven insights With the NHS estate under increasing strain, how – by combining sensor data with local knowledge – healthcare organisations can ‘uncover hidden capacity, optimise space, and reduce reliance on outdated buildings’.
53 Staff praise UK’s first WELL Gold healthcare facility Sharon Cook, Healthcare lead at P+HS Architects, reflects on how the 10 WELL Concept areas were embedded into the design of the Northumbria Health and Care Academy, the UK’s first healthcare building to achieve WELL Gold certification.
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59 PBVs in healthcare water safety and specification Anil Madan of Ideal Standard UK and Armitage Shanks considers some of the advantages of pressure- balancing valves (PBVs) in healthcare water systems.
63 Could UV-C LEDs light up decontamination? Paul Chivers of PCC Sustainable Solutions discusses recent work to examine and verify the effectiveness of novel ways to reprocess reuseable anaesthetic masks, other PPE, and medical devices, using technologies such as UVC.
68 Maintaining the ‘health’ of voltage and current Tom Davies, Sales manager for Energy Control at fortop Automation & Energy Control (fortop UK), explores how improving power quality and energy management is essential for healthcare estates teams in the quest to achieve Net Zero carbon goals.
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