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Cabinet re-shuffle heralds new Health Secretary
Matt Hancock (pictured), the MP for West Suffolk, has taken over as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from Jeremy Hunt, who has been appointed Foreign Secretary following a Cabinet re-shuffle by Prime Minister, Theresa May.
His appointment to the pivotal healthcare role in the NHS’s 70th Anniversary Year comes in the wake of the resignation of both Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary, and Brexit Secretary, David Davis, over disagreements on the UK’s Brexit deal.
Having been elected in the 2010 General Election, Matt Hancock served as a backbench MP on the Public Accounts Committee and the Standards & Privileges Committee, entering
government in September 2012. He has since served in a number of Ministerial Roles, including for skills and business, and as Paymaster General. He has also overseen the expansion of apprenticeships, and ‘championed the digital transformation of government’. Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 8 January to 9 July this year, he was previously Minister of State for Digital from July 2016 to January 2018.
Before entering politics, he worked for his family business, as an economist at the Bank of England, and as Chief of Staff to the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. He holds degrees from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
New energy centre to save £1m annually
St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London, is celebrating a major overhaul of its energy centre that the St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says will reduce the hospital’s annual energy bill by ‘at least 10 per cent’.
Delivered by Centrica Business Solutions, the project is ‘guaranteed to save the hospital over £1 m per year with no upfront cost’, while reducing its annual carbon emissions by 20 per cent (6,000 tonnes).
Officially opened on 29 June, the energy centre features two CHP units that will deliver almost the entire hospital’s power requirement. Centrica also installed four boilers, a ‘highly efficient’ chiller system, and ‘energy- efficient’ lighting and controls. The energy centre has been delivered under a 15-year EPC that will include operations and maintenance support. St George’s is one of the UK’s largest teaching hospitals. With 960 beds, and 24 theatres, it treats around a million patients annually.
Pictured (left to right) are: Shane Minehane, lead project manager, Kim Riley, project manager, and Jorge Pikunic, MD, all of UK & I Distributed Energy (DE) and Power at Centrica, the Trust’s director of estates and facilities, Kevin Howell, and Chris Gale, DE Programme manager, Centrica.
The proposed building will be positioned between Circle Health’s new private hospital and rehabilitation centre and the Birmingham NHS Dental Hospital. While for over 30 years, Pebble Mill was home to BBC television studios, the area is now being ‘transformed’ into a 27-acre medical development, to include hospitals, healthcare centres, and ‘cutting edge’ medical facilities. Bupa Care Homes’ 62-room care centre and the Birmingham Dental Hospital & School of Dentistry have already opened on the site, and work has started on Circle Health’s new 19,000 m2
private hospital and
rehabilitation centre. Once completed, Pebble Mill will offer over 50,000 m2
of
medical and healthcare facilities. Ralph Minott, director of development for Calthorpe Estates, said: “Calthorpe Estates has the capacity within this expanded proposal to now attract world-leading specialists and pioneering medical offers to Edgbaston Medical Quarter at Building 4.”
Brandon appoints CEO ‘to drive accelerated growth’
Brandon Medical has appointed Keith Jackson as CEO in the wake of what it says is ‘accelerated growth’ over the past 18 months – ‘proof of an expanding manufacturing for export sector in the North of England’.
Graeme and Adrian Hall will continue as shareholders and company directors, ‘with a focus on strategic growth opportunities, entering new international markets, and job creation’. The former, now executive chairman of Brandon’s board of directors,
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said: “It is a perfect time for Keith to become Brandon Medical’s new CEO. We have selected a very capable leader on the cusp of a significant period of change for the company. He has a wealth of business
experience, and a strong track record of business transformation and international business development, including in China.”
Keith Jackson is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Director, and an Institute of Directors UK Director of the Year. He brings over 25 years’ medical technology sector experience, with success in both commercial and technical leadership roles. Pictured, left to right, are Adrian Hall, Keith Jackson, and Graeme Hall.
FormerBBCstudios to become ‘world- class’medical facility
Birmingham’s Edgbaston Medical Quarter (EMQ) has received ‘the green light’ to improve the mix and medical facilities at Pebble Mill, the site of the former BBC Studios.
The application, submitted by investor and developer, Calthorpe Estates, has been granted for outline planning permission to transform Building 4 at Pebble Mill into a 9,000 m2 ‘world-class healthcare facility’.
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