Engineering Council officially launches new UK-SPEC HRB Standard

A continued capital funding boost for primary and community services is ‘vital’ if the NHS is to achieve the government’s plan to move more care out of hospitals, and develop a neighbourhood health service, health leaders have warned.

The government could tighten up the rules restricting the use of global warming refrigerant gases – including speeding up phase-out programmes and introducing new bans, according to a spokesman from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...

The trade body for Britain’s pest control industry says tackling issues with vermin in hospitals will become a greater challenge, ‘due to legislation affecting control methods in the sector’.

A new 44-bedded inpatient mental health hospital for women has officially opened in Oldham, creating 135 local jobs – from clinical and nursing positions to catering, domestics, and administrative roles.

The simple act of looking at a piece of visual art can boost wellbeing, a new research study has found – with the benefit gained just as much in a hospital setting as in an art gallery.

VES, which supplies and manufactures air-handling, heat recovery, and supply and extract units for public, commercial, and industrial buildings across the UK, has announced the recent addition of Ben and Will Peters as shareholders and directors of...