All Facilities management articles – Page 42
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new community hospital schemes announced
Just over one third of the£750m announced in 2006 to modernise community hospitals has now been allocated, the Department of Health has said. The£750m was due to be spent over five years on either building new community hospitals or super surgeries, or renovating old ones. It followed the 2006 health ...
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Welsh NHS to buy goods and services online
A project that will enable the public sector in Wales to buy all its goods and services online has been given the go-ahead.
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HSJ Knowledge
Secure care: improving life in locked wards
The latest specifications for housing patients in medium secure care clarify the rules and include welcome proposals to improve life in locked wards. Rebecca Norris reports
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Building sustainability in the NHS estate
Lorraine Brayford argues that sustainability should be a priority in healthcare design and recognises those already working to deliver sustainable healthcare buildings for the future
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£1m to improve NHS end-of-life care
The King's Fund has announced a new phase of its scheme to improve hospital facilities for people approaching the end of their life.
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New security website launched
The NHS security management service has launched a new Safe & Secure Health Facilities website. It aims to provide a single point of reference on information of interest to those with responsibility for NHS security matters. It is for members of staff such as local security management specialists, senior ...
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Climate change experts to visit trusts
A team of climate change experts is to tour the country to galvanise trusts to take action on sustainable development in the health service.
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£98m parking fees 'immoral'
NHS trusts earned £98m from car parking charges in 2005-06 - a 26 per cent increase on the year before, figures presented to the Commons health select committee have revealed.
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£57.5m earmarked for deep cleaning
Strategic health authorities have together allocated £57.5m to support the government's 'deep clean' drive.In a statement to the House of Commons on 21 November, health secretary Alan Johnson said all NHS hospital trusts should aim to complete their deep cleans by the end of March 2008.
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PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze
District generals' income is set to take a hit as specialist hospitals and primary care trusts move in on their territory. How will they pay PFI debts of £28.5bn, asks Sally Gainsbury
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£31m for children's mental health services
The government has announced it is spending £31m on increasing bed capacity and improving facilities in child and adolescent mental health services.The funding has been split between 17 projects designed to help eliminate the inappropriate use of adult psychiatric wards for children and young people.
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Extra £23m for primary care premises in Scotland
Health boards across Scotland are tobenefit from an extra £23m to improve and modernise primary care premises, Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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New hospital for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
Health secretary Alan Johnson announced yesterday that a preferred bidder had been appointed to build a new £228m hospital at infection-hit Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals trust.
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Deficit crisis warning over Scotland's PFI expansion
Plans to more than quadruple the size of NHS Scotland's private finance initiative programme risk creating a deficit crisis akin to that in England, researchers have warned.
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HSJ Knowledge
Obesity and healthcare estate design
At least one-third of adults in the UK will be obese by 2020 if current trends continue, yet there is little guidance, or even recognition, of this in healthcare estate design. Paul Willetts and Morag McGill say it is time to act
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HSJ Knowledge
Health developments: doctors on the football pitch
Sports stadiums are proving mutually attractive as shared sites for NHS health centres, and interest in such ventures is on the increase. Lynne Greenwood is your commentator
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Academic health science centre launched
Imperial College Healthcare trust, the UK's first academic health science centre, was launched on Monday.
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Guy's and St Thomas' announces estates strategy
Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust has developed an overarching estates strategy to guide decisions on investments in the hospital environment.
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HSJ Knowledge
Transferring assets to social enterprises - the perks and quirks
NHS organisations have a great opportunity when transferring assets to social enterprises – particularly with the scope afforded by NHS Estatecode, the guidance on managing their estate for disposals other than sales at open market value. Jane Donnison explains
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Mastering strategic asset management
NHS organisations must keep tabs on their estate by compiling comprehensive information on their properties, writes Mark Paget Skelin