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Much-anticipated NHS Net Zero Building Standard published
The new NHS Net Zero Building Standard, published on 22 February 2023, provides technical guidance ‘to support the development of sustainable, resilient, and energy- efficient buildings that meet the needs of patients now and in the future’, says NHS England. Developed ‘with healthcare, industry, and sustainability partners’, the Standard will – NHS England says, ‘support the NHS to get ready for, and align with, UK Government building requirements, as well as meet its commitments to deliver a Net Zero health service by 2045’. In October 2020 the NHS became the world’s first health service to commit to becoming Net Zero. While the approach to managing whole life carbon in the Standard is relevant to all healthcare buildings, NHS England points out that it will apply to all investments in new buildings and upgrades to existing facilities that are subject to HM Treasury business case approval process, and are at pre-strategic outline business case approval stage, from 1 October 2023 onwards. NHS England says this will result in reduced carbon emissions, and incremental improvements in the NHS building stock, ‘ensuring consistency, standardisation, and equity, across the NHS estate over time’. The Standard will be periodically
updated in collaboration with NHS organisations, partners, and suppliers,
IHP awarded Great Western Hospital contract in Swindon
Following its successful delivery of the Urgent Treatment Centre in 2022 for Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Integrated Health Projects has won a further design and build contract for the new emergency department at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital, and reconfiguration of its Children’s Emergency Unit. The Trust has secured £26 m of Government funding to progress the scheme, which will provide a new ‘same day’ Emergency
to ensure that it remains current and relevant, ‘as technology and Modern Methods of Construction advance and evolve’.
Fiona Daly, the National Deputy
Director of Estates, Estates and Facilities NHS England, Commercial Directorate, said – as news of the Standard’s publication was announced – that she wished to thank members of IHEEM and HEFMA for their input during its creation, adding that she looked forward to working with the two organisations’ members on its implementation.
facility will link up the current Emergency Department footprint, connecting the new Urgent Treatment Centre via a corridor. Throughout construction, existing services will be maintained, with ‘careful relocation of some clinical services’.
Care and Joint Initial Assessment Unit, ‘for the first time formally integrating medical and surgical care’. With rising demand for urgent and emergency care services, and increasing capacity pressures on the Trust’s ‘front door services’, the 2442 m2
Russell Flowers, Regional director for VINCI and IHP, said: “IHP is delighted the Trust has received approval for the urgent and emergency care expansion programme to deliver the new Integrated Front Door project.”
Sodexo fund-raising supports children’s heart surgery in Palestine
Sodexo’s team at Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital has raised £6,000 for a life-saving mission organised by Leicester charity, Healing Little Hearts, to fund a medical team to travel to the An-Najah University Hospital in Nablus in Palestine to perform free heart surgery on five seriously ill children. During 2022 Sodexo’s team, led by Catering manager, Belinda Smith, organised fundraising activities for the Healing Little Hearts charity. Founded by Dr Sanjiv Nichani OBE, a consultant paediatrician at Leicester Children’s Hospital for 26 years, the charity began its work in India, has expanded its reach every year, and is now reportedly the UK’s busiest children’s heart charity. On 10 December last year, Dr Nichani and a team including surgeon, Professor Massimo Caputo, from Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, travelled to An-
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one million babies and children dying every year from untreated heart disease – more than double the number from malaria. It is completely treatable, and this mortality rate is simply due to a lack of training and facilities. By comparison, in the UK 6,000 babies and children require heart surgery annually, and all successfully have surgery, with a 98-99% survival rate.”
Najah University Hospital to perform the heart surgery on five Palestinian children aged between 19 months and 10 years. Three of the operations had never been performed in the region before. The local surgical and medical team supported the operations.
Dr Nichani said: “There are an estimated
Belinda Smith said: “It’s hard not to be overwhelmed by the level of determination of Dr Nichani and his team, and the impact the charity has had. It is wonderful to know we are making a contribution. I want to help be a voice for Healing Little Hearts and raise awareness. It’s something I love to do.” Pictured are Paediatric doctor, Abhishek Oswal (left), and Cardiology registrar, Jack Gibb, with one of the Palestinian children operated on.
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