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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS 40 new hospitals in major building programme
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has confirmed that 40 hospitals will be built by 2030 as part of a package worth £3.7 billion, while the proponents of further eight schemes have been invited to bid for future funding.
The Department of Health and Social Care of Health (DHSC) also confirmed that new standards would be developed over coming months ‘to help standardise the design of new hospitals and make use of modular construction methods to speed up the build’. The Department describes the Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP) – which was launched in September 2019 – as ‘the biggest hospital building programme in a generation’. It launched with a £2.8 billion investment that gave six new hospitals the funding to go ahead, alongside seed funding for Trusts to work up business cases. Those that received such funding will now all be fully funded to deliver 25 new hospitals. A
new hospital in Shotley Bridge in Durham has also been added to the programme, in what the Government says is ‘a further signal of our commitment to rebuild across the north of England, as we drive forward with the levelling up agenda’. Of the eight further new hospitals, ‘a proportion’ will be mental health hospitals. Health and Social Care
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Secretary, Matt Hancock, said: “We protected the NHS through the peak of the coronavirus. Today we recommit to protect the NHS for years to come with the 40 new hospitals we will build over the next decade. The biggest hospital building programme in a generation will help protect the NHS long into the future.”
Alongside this, as announced last year, 20 hospitals will receive a share of £850 m
‘to upgrade outdated facilities and equipment’, with enabling works already beginning at several sites. Over the summer the Prime Minister announced £1.5 bn in capital funding for the NHS, including £450 million for 142 A&E upgrades ahead of winter, ‘to improve infection control and increase capacity’. The DHSC says this investment will be on top of the ‘record extra’ £33.9 billion a year by 2023 to 2024 the government is providing to the NHS.
The DHSC added: “Alongside work to deliver the government’s manifesto commitment on 40 new hospitals, progress is also being made on delivering 50,000 more nurses, with over 14,100 more working in the NHS compared with last year, as well as over 9,200 more doctors.”
Webinar will cover 'turning compliance into an opportunity' How NHS Trusts can ‘turn compliance into
an opportunity’ – by creating an effective ‘Green Plan’— will be the subject of a webinar presented by Beth Goodwin, Account manager for Inenco’s NHS clients within the North of England, to be held at 11.00 am on 26 November in association with Health Estate Journal.
With health and social care activity accounting for 4-5% of the UK’s carbon footprint, energy and sustainability consultancy, Inenco, warns that without a greater focus on delivering environmental sustainability across all parts of the NHS, the NHS’s recent Net Zero commitment ‘could be in peril’.
Inenco’s webinar will focus on: n Creating your Green Plan – What is it, why is it important, and what you need to know?
n Going beyond compliance – using a Green Plan to drive change and set evidence- based objectives.
n How to best report on performance. n Using data to baseline current performance, and setting evidence-based objectives.
n Embedding the Green Plan in your Trust to engage key stakeholders and drive change. Inenco ‘helps leading organisations with bespoke energy management strategies that support positive strategic change
and chart the journey to environmental sustainability’.
Webinar presenter, Beth Goodwin, acts as the main interface between Inenco and NHS Trusts in northern England. Key to her role is understanding the drivers from NHSI/NHSE, CCGs, and the Sustainable Development Unit, and how these impact on Trusts day to day, ‘changing their priorities, and determining how they can best shape their utility procurement strategy, optimise consumption efficiencies, and chart a path to carbon Net Zero’. To register for the webinar, click
https://event.webinarjam.com/register/ 30/m0mlvh7k
Welsh Government invests £250,000 in ‘pop-up’ isolation tent AerosolShield has secured £250,000
investment from the Welsh Government to help it develop and scale production of the AerosolShield pop-up isolation tent.
Conceived at the end of March, and accelerated from concept to commercial availability in just six days, the AerosolShield is a transparent, pop-up tent deployable ‘in seconds’ to cover a patient’s head and shoulders, forming a physical barrier between patient and carer during aerosol-generating procedures. AerosolShields have already been deployed to hospitals around the UK, protecting an estimated ‘5,000+ NHS’
staff from potential exposure to COVID-19 in recent months.
This latest £250,000 investment adds to £100,000 in funding secured in July from the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network’s SME Health Innovation Fund and MidTECH Innovations, and a public GoFundMe campaign which has raised £35,000 to date. The grant is part of the Welsh Government rapid response ‘Covid-19 RD&I’ scheme.
Kirsty Williams, Education Minister for Wales, said: “This funding is part of £6 m we’re
providing towards research, development, and innovation projects and Small Business Research Initiatives related to the coronavirus, to benefit both the public and private sectors.”
Produced by Welsh manufacturer, Airquee, an established supplier of isolation and decontamination tents used by humanitarian organisations, health workers, and the armed forces, the AerosolShield ‘can be used for many hours, even days, on the same patient, throughout the entire patient journey’.
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