RECENT NEWS

In what it dubs its ‘latest step to help specifiers and contractors mitigate fire risk in the fifth façade’, Rockwool has launched HARDROCK UB34, a non-combustible insulation solution specially designed for parapet walls and upstands on flat roofs.

Sir Simon Stevens (pictured) formally notified the NHS England Board on 29 April of his decision to stand down, ‘as planned’ at the end of July this year, after more than seven years as NHS Chief Executive.

Rockwool has enhanced its range of resources for specifiers, contractors, and building owners, with Rockwool Interactive City, ‘a 3D environment’ that facilitates visualising, specifying, and learning about its non-combustible stone wool insulation.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust says work to build a new eight-bed psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) for young people at the Warneford Hospital site in Oxford, set to open in early September 2022, is now under way.

‘Innovative’ new Custom floors and walls from Altro allow healthcare specifiers ‘to create unique spaces exactly as they want them’ – the flooring and wall cladding specialist says.

Issues with ageing timber windows at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, a 300-bed acute facility, and learning disability hospital, Lynebank Hospital in Dunfermline, have seen the operator of both sites, NHS Fife, fit replacement PVCu units from REHAU.

People with mental health difficulties ranging from severe mental illnesses, to more common mental health issues, are to benefit from expanded mental health services backed by £500 m as part of the Government’s Mental Health Recovery Action Plan.

Intastop, a manufacturer and supplier of door and wall protective products, and anti-ligature and access, seals, and acoustic products for markets including healthcare, has recently invested £200,000 in design, manufacturing, and assembly functions.

A new coalition of health and education experts – the Mental Health Action Group – met for the first time recently, to look at the pandemic’s impact on the mental health and wellbeing of children, young people, and education staff, across England.

A pedestrian traffic control system that ‘complements automatic doors’, which the company says ‘provides both safety and security’, has been introduced by GEZE UK.

Chosen for its experience in specialist care environments, Gainsborough has provided two ‘highly advanced’ wetrooms for The Welland Centre, St Mary’s Hospital, Kettering.

Apprentice, Davina Kaur, has risen ‘from the depths of depression’ and a failed suicide attempt to being crowned The Best of British Engineering at the recent Enginuity Skills Awards.

The 7th National CPD-accredited CAMHS conference, being held at The Royal National Hotel in London on 24 June, will explore ‘how the crisis in children and young people’s mental health services has been compounded by COVID-19 and lockdowns’.

Construction has begun on the £60 m redevelopment of Northgate Hospital in Morpeth, designed by Medical Architecture for NTW Solutions – Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, with the main contractor being Sir Robert McAlpine.

An ‘innovative’ cloud-based service designed to keep security systems up and running, ‘for maximum effectiveness at a minimum cost’, has been launched by Stanley Security.

A poll of politicians from across the political spectrum carried out by YouGov on behalf of the Health for Care 'coalition' reveals that ‘nine out of 10’ MPs say local government does not have enough resource to meet the growing need for social care.

Static Systems Group, the Staffordshire-based designer and manufacturer of nurse call systems, custodial and staff attack alarm systems, bedhead and mobile trunking, wearable communication devices, and fire alarms, has been acquired by Halma.

Seven sites which will test the ways in which connecting people with nature can improve mental wellbeing have been awarded a share of a £5.77 million ‘pot’, Environment Minister, Rebecca Pow, has announced.

NHS Lothian's inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) are set to move to their new home at the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh this month.

P-Wave, a specialist supplier of washroom air fresheners and antibacterial products, says its Steri-Core antimicrobial silver ion technology door furniture helps reduce the spread of bacteria and viruses.