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Planning application submitted for new Children’s Hospital


A new Cambridge Children’s Hospital has taken another step forward with the submission of a planning application to Cambridge City Council for the early designs.


The submission of the formal ‘reserved matters’ planning application builds on the existing outline planning permission. With an estimated 36,000 m2


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footprint, the drawings submitted give an early indication of how the hospital might look when it opens in 2025. To be built on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, it will be the region’s first dedicated children’s hospital, and will also ‘share ground-breaking research’. Work continues on developing the Outline Business Case for HM Treasury approval, and on the fundraising campaign announced earlier this year. An international design team comprising Turner & Townsend, Hawkins\Brown, White Arkitekter, Ramboll, and MJ Medical, with support from planning consultants, Bidwells, and fire consultants, Alfor, has been engaging with staff from across the partner organisations ‘about how the hospital should work’. Members of Cambridge Children’s Network – comprising young


people, parents, and carers from across the region, have also been instrumental in helping shape how it might look and feel. The project team, and client Trust, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), said: “The hospital’s form is designed to encourage play and bring in light. Outdoor courtyards at all levels will give children opportunities to interact, learn, empathise, and heal. Distributing these spaces throughout the building will bring natural light and air into the depth of the plan, creating visual connections across wards, while dramatically reducing the building’s operational lighting requirements.” Cambridge Children’s Hospital will be designed with Passivhaus principals, and will meet BREAAM ‘Excellent’ as a minimum.


Building work is due to start in 2023.


A £1.3 m investment at Vernacare’s flagship manufacturing facility in Chorley into an additional ‘state-of-the-art’ wet wipes machine, which came on stream on 1 September, will significantly increase manufacturing capacity at the facility, the company says.


£1.3 m for sustainable wet wipe production Downham (pictured), said:


CEO, James Steele, said: “During the past 18 months, we worked incredibly hard to supply crucial products to healthcare environments worldwide. It is fantastic that as a British manufacturer, we are expanding on what we already have at Matrix Park in Chorley, and continue to invest and employ in the local area, with the backing of our investors, HIG.”


In March Vernacare acquired Robinson Healthcare, which brought with it additional manufacturing capacity in the North of England, with the addition of two wet wipes manufacturing lines and fluid mixing facility.


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“The new machine in Chorley will produce wet wipes for patient bathing, hand hygiene, surface cleaning, and disinfection – providing improved flexibility, giving us the ability to develop products, and offering an even more bespoke service to our valued customers.”


Senior Product Manager, Elizabeth Jamieson, added: “We’re continuously


looking to reduce plastic waste, while working toward the inclusion of recycled plastic content across several packaging formats. Many of our latest wipe developments are manufactured from sustainable, 100 per cent plastic- free plant-based materials.” Vernacare continues with ongoing efforts to make single-use products sustainable. The new machine will enable the production of larger flow- wrap packs with clip-lock lids, providing a viable alternative to wipes housed in large plastic containers.


EqualEngineers said: “The situation is bleak, particularly among the engineering and technology industry, with men comprising over 89% of the workforce, and an overwhelming feeling among this sector that men should behave in a certain way against a backdrop of more than one in five in this line of work reporting that they had lost a colleague to suicide.”


EqualEngineers launched a ‘Masculinity in Engineering’ survey in 2019, and has recently launched its second. To close on 30 November, it will explore ‘if the culture of engineering is affected by the stereotype of what an engineer looks like, and how men are expected to behave’, tackling questions such as: ‘Do men feel included or excluded in the push to increase diversity?’, ‘Could a more diverse profession benefit both women and men?’, ‘Why do men feel pressure to behave a certain way in the workplace?’, ‘Are men able to be open about their mental health challenges, or is the stigmatisation too great?’, and ‘Does this manifest itself as a macho culture in the workplace or on site which prevents an inclusive culture?’ Results will be reported next Spring. Take the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ EqEngMasculinityinEngSurvey2021


Survey to examine ‘masculinity in engineering’ issues


Male construction workers are almost four times more likely to take their own life than the average of those working in any other industry or profession, reveals EqualEngineers, a company set up by gay safety engineer, Dr Mark McBride- Wright ‘to address some of the serious issues among the engineering and technology industry by connecting inclusive employers with diverse talent in the sector’.


Dr McBride-Wright worked for major engineering firms before setting up networking group, InterEngineering, for LGBT+ engineers, gave him the drive to found an organisation covering all aspects of diversity. He established EqualEngineers ‘after years of working in the sector and seeing the challenges the lack of diversity can bring, and the risks posed to health, safety, and wellbeing’.


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