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FWP ‘transforms’ Health-Based Places of Safety for Pennine Care

Leading architect, design, and masterplanning practice, FWP’s specialist mental health team is working with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust to ‘transform’ its Health-Based Places of Safety (HBPoS).

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Financing’s role in ‘closing the gap’ between healthcare resources and costs
Financing’s role in ‘closing the gap’ between healthcare resources and costs

A new analysis from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) – titled ‘Healthcare spending: addressing the big issue?’, assesses ‘the widening gap between healthcare resources and healthcare costs’, and – as the business puts it – ‘the role of financing in...

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Helping the HSE in Ireland deliver ‘digitally enabled’ healthcare
Helping the HSE in Ireland deliver ‘digitally enabled’ healthcare

Version 1, ‘a global leader in digital transformation’, has been awarded a national contract to support The Health Service Executive (HSE) in delivering ‘digitally enabled’ healthcare services across Ireland.

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Combustion Engineering Association announces new General manager
Combustion Engineering Association announces new General manager

The Combustion Engineering Association (CEA)’s new General manager, Michael Kaye (pictured), has a strong background in mechanical and design engineering, coupled with years of industry leadership, and – the Association says – brings both expertise...

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Fairtrade coffee and ‘gourmet’ organic food now on offer at St Richard’s
Fairtrade coffee and ‘gourmet’ organic food now on offer at St Richard’s

Peabodys, which first began serving ‘gourmet organic’ Fairtrade coffee and freshly prepared food within hospitals in London in 1997, has recently opened its 12th coffee shop, at St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester.

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Challenging healthcare waste ‘overbilling’ saves GPs almost £3 m
Challenging healthcare waste ‘overbilling’ saves GPs almost £3 m

GPs in England have saved almost £3 million on their healthcare waste bills thanks to the intervention of technology provided by leading independent healthcare waste management company, Anenta, the company says.

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New decarbonisation framework agreement to help public sector hit Net Zero goals
New decarbonisation framework agreement to help public sector hit Net Zero goals

Corporate services provider, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), has unveiled a £500 m framework agreement designed to help public sector organisations – including the NHS – decarbonise their estates.

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Features

The benefits of ‘the right light at the right time’
The benefits of ‘the right light at the right time’

Dr Shelley James, a lighting design consultant, TEDx and keynote speaker, author, and elected member of the WELL Light Advisory Team, discusses the significant positive impact that today’s advanced lighting technologies can have both on patient and service-user recovery, state of mind, and mood, and staff’s wellbeing and ability to deliver the...

AGM reveals income and event numbers up
AGM reveals income and event numbers up

News of the successful re-location to Manchester of the Network’s 2024 conference and exhibition featured among topics discussed at the organisation’s ‘online’ 2024 AGM.

Assisting de-escalation through product design
Assisting de-escalation through product design

Isabel Ferreira, Global head of Products at Pineapple Contracts, which manufactures and supplies ‘mindfully designed furniture for transforming challenging environments’, discusses the positive impact of good product design in assisting de-escalation, minimising feelings of anxiety, and helping to create a calmer, more therapeutic environment and...

The therapeutic setting needing tailored furniture
The therapeutic setting needing tailored furniture

Tony Huggins, MD of David Bailey Furniture, discusses its expertise manufacturing and supplying specialist furniture and fittings for mental healthcare settings, and some of the key features required – an excellent example being its recent supply of furniture for the new Kimmeridge Court eating disorders unit at St Ann’s Hospital in Poole (The...

Products

Robust modular furniture for indoor and outdoor use
Robust modular furniture for indoor and outdoor use

With flexibility and adaptability key design principles for healthcare spaces – since over time care provision can evolve, and patient needs can change – furniture that can be easily reconfigured or repurposed allows healthcare facilities to adjust...

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Damage-resistant and ‘100 per cent waterproof' bed
Damage-resistant and ‘100 per cent waterproof' bed

The Ryno Wall Bed from Pineapple Contracts has a one-piece design, is ‘totally water-resistant’, damage-resistant, and ‘anti-concealment’, and with ergonomics in mind, one side is angled outwards – making it easier for users to stand up from the bed.

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Electronic access control solution’s ‘intuitive’ user interface
Electronic access control solution’s ‘intuitive’ user interface

Abloy UK says the new Primo electronic access control solution, developed with sister company, Impro Technologies, offers ‘an innovative and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI)’ that enhances user experience.

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Patented floor cleaning system’s lightning-fast speed
Patented floor cleaning system’s lightning-fast speed

i-team global has launched a patented floor cleaning technology that it says ‘removes the repetition from commercial floor cleaning in record time, with much greener performance and excellent results’.

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