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Work starts on UEA anatomy training facilities
Aspiring healthcare
professionals in the region will soon be benefiting from ‘state- of-the-art’, fully accessible anatomy training facilities at the University of East Anglia (UEA), designed by LSI Architects, following the start of building works at the site on Norwich Research Park. The new two-storey extension
to the Edith Cavell Building (ECB) is located adjacent to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. The new Anatomy Suite is due for completion in late 2025, and should become operational during 2026, offering teaching space in seminar rooms, an immersive anatomy teaching space, improved preparation areas for staff and students, and associated storage and academic office facilities. UEA said: “It will offer significantly more space, which is needed for teaching and practical skills development, and support the recruitment and retention of highly skilled healthcare professionals,
Regional distribution centre for the North West fully operational
A new NHS Supply Chain regional distribution centre that will support 115 NHS Trusts is now fully operational at Gorsey Point, strategically located within 3.5 miles of junction 7 of the M62, five miles from junction 12 of the M56, and close to the access point onto the Mersey Gateway Bridge, which links Runcorn and Widnes. The 400,000 ft2
Gorsey Point facility
both regionally and nationally.” Replacing the existing suite on campus, the Suite will be one of the country’s first to meet contemporary standards set by the World Health Organization, following new legislation relating to formaldehyde exposure. It will increase teaching and course capacity at undergraduate, postgraduate, and specialist training levels, and provide flexibility to react to technological changes in teaching methods, sitting alongside the immersive training facilities within the ECB.
PFKG AND GIRI join forces ‘to enhance fire safety’
The Passive Fire Knowledge Group (PFKG) and The Get It Right Initiative (GIRI) have announced plans to work together ‘to improve safety and construction practices’ by sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas, and promoting each other’s aims and objectives.
They say the collaboration brings together the PFKG’s specialised focus on passive fire protection with GIRI’s ‘broader-based approach to improving construction practices and eliminating errors’. PFKG, established in 2022, is a non-for-profit collaboration comprising contractors, consultants, and relevant trade associations. Its ‘mission’ is to
improve the delivery of well-designed, specified, and installed passive fire protection by focusing on three key areas: Process, Testing, and Education. Formed in 2015, GIRI is ‘a group of over 100 leading UK construction industry experts, organisations, and businesses actively improving productivity, quality, sustainability, and safety in the construction sector by eliminating error’. Cliff Smith, Executive director at GIRI, said: “The construction industry is navigating wholesale changes that have come through the Building Safety Act, with more rigorous standards and regulation at every stage of the development lifecycle. Through the GIRI Design Guide and our Building Safety Act working group, GIRI is working across the industry to meet these requirements and keep people safe through a common culture of getting things right first time. This collaboration with the PFKG will enable us to highlight the critical importance of addressing fire safety, using our collective expertise to increase the focus on this high priority issue.”
The centre will support 360 jobs, with the majority relocating from a smaller previous warehouse in nearby Runcorn. It will serve 3,500 delivery locations and 18,400 individual requisition points that deliver the products and equipment needed to care for patients across the region. NHS Supply Chain CEO, Andrew New, said: “NHS Supply Chain’s Gorsey Point facility is a major investment in the North West, and a significant part of our long-term national growth plans, future-proofing our logistics operation in this part of the country, and allowing us to better meet the growing needs of NHS Trusts in the region. The purpose- built facility gives us the capacity to store not only a greater level of stock overall, but also a broader range of products used by the NHS, boosting the resilience of our supply chain. This is something NHS Trusts really wanted.”
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– the size of six professional football pitches – is around three times larger than the facility it replaces, providing 60,000 pallet spaces – an eight-fold increase (7,500). NHS Supply Chain, which manages the sourcing, delivery, and supply of healthcare products, services, and food, for NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales, says it will provide a more resilient and efficient supply of products and medical equipment to hospitals and other healthcare providers across the North West.
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