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Sodexo Extends Partnership With IPS and Tork

Sodexo has extended its partnership with the Infection Prevention Society and Tork, Essity’s hygiene brand. The renewed partnership, which...

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Everything You Need to Know About AI in Healthcare

Artificial intelligence is changing medical practice and the healthcare industry. Technologies including machine learning and digitised data...

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MedTech Company Looks to Solve NHS' Clinical Waste and Plastic Problem

A British MedTech company is helping the NHS to reduce CO2 emissions in its clinical waste disposal by 95 per cent. It is hoped that this will save...

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Archus Launches New FM Team

Archus has launched a new estates and facilities management team, led by Dr. Rachel Dick, Archus Associate Director. Dr. Rachel Dick is joining...

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Managing Healthcare Facilities – Net-Zero Hospitals

The carbon footprint of healthcare could triple by 2050, leading to worse health outcomes, increased chances of pandemics and a more unstable...

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Public Health to be Transformed With Formation of Two New Bodies

The Health Estates and Facilities Management Association is encouraging feedback on a recent proposal to overhaul England’s public health with...

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Imtech Inviron Signs Three-Year Contract With OSD Healthcare

Imtech Inviron has secured a three-year contract to provide facilities management services to OSD Healthcare’s Hemel Hempstead facility. OSD...

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NHS Nightingale – A Hospital Built in 9 Days

As it admits its first patients, ThisWeekinFM takes a look at how London’s ExCeL exhibition centre was transformed in just nine days into NHS...

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Union Demands Immediate Sick Pay For Outsourced Workers With Suspected COVID-19

If people feel forced to work in hospitals – or any other workplace – while ill, coronavirus will become a national health crisis, claims...

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2020 Vision - MEP Contractor Appointed For Eye Hospital

NG Bailey has secured a £2.9 million project to deliver mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) installations for a new eye care centre at the...

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It's A Knockout - Anaesthetists Tender Sees One Winner

How's this for a coincidence, Churchill, the cleaning contractor, has got the gig at Churchill House - home to the Royal College of...

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JV On Track For Train And Regen Project

A joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Vinci Systra has been awarded the HS2 construction management contract for the £1 billion Old Oak...

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Smoking Outside Hospitals Worse Than Outside Pub

Public Health England has called on all NHS trusts to ban smoking on hospital grounds. "It cannot be right that it is more acceptable to smoke at...

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London Hospitals May See Sodexo Staff Strike

Tuesday April 30 saw three London hospitals hit by protests over pay involving porters, cleaners and domestic staff who work for Sodexo. The protests...

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Good Care - Sodexo Buys Live-in Care Group

Monday April 8 saw Sodexo announce that it had expanded its UK home care business with the acquisition of The Good Care Group. The Good Care...

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ISS Healthcare On A TFM High And Waverley Says Hello To Mitie Mouse

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has appointed ISS for a comprehensive FM contract that takes in estates maintenance, cleaning, catering for...

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Trust Puts Trust In ISS For First Commercial Contract

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has appointed ISS Healthcare to provide retail and patient catering. This is the Trust's...

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Care Firm Pioneers Company Wide Recycling Scheme

One of the UK’s largest private care providers has launched an initiative to recycle half of the waste it produces. The Regard Group, which...

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Now Wash Your Hands

World Hand Hygiene Day on May 5 focuses attention on hand hygiene in healthcare environs. Sepsis is estimated to affect more than 30 million patients...

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FM - Here Is THE News

BBC - Here is the News The Beeb will continue receiving its FM from Interserve in a £140 million contract running until 2023. This latest...

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Zapping Those Nasty Bugs

Sodexo Healthcare has launched a new ultraviolet disinfection system claiming it provides increased protection against the spread of healthcare...

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No Accidents Waiting to Happen

A staff health and safety drive has kept Bristol Southmead Hospital accident free for 2016. The health and safety initiative which has been...

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Care Homes Facing Financial Crisis

A BBC report has revealed that a quarter of UK care homes are at risk of closure. The disclosure in the You and Yours BBC radio programme this week...

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Galliford Trys South Atlantic

The design and construction of the new Camogli Health Facility on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island, in the South...

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Keeping Hands Soft for Dishes

A mild antimicrobial handwash that is effective against a wide range of potentially harmful micro-organisms as well as not harming the skin from...

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Healthy Connections in Gloucestershire

As one of the largest hospital trusts in the country (providing acute elective and specialist care for a population of more than 612,000 people) the...

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