Healthcare news
John Laing wins £120m Cambridge health scheme
Project finance to be arranged by contractor in first-of-its-kind development for NHS
NHS ‘wasted’ floor space costs £2.3bn
EC Harris report finds NHS is underutilising space equivalent to the size of Hyde Park
Lend Lease wins £22m hospital job
Firm wins contract to build a £22m radiotherapy centre for the Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
‘Largest ever’ off-site hospital build contract awarded
Yorkon will construct a £17.9m Women and Children’s Centre in Middlesex
HOK and BDP in battle for £112m Danish hospital job
Architects on shortlist of seven competing to design extension to super-hospital
Treasury reveals full details of revamped PFI
Chancellor confirms plans to see government take stake in new privately financed schemes under revamped PFI programme
£237m Liverpool hospital secures funding
Laing O’Rourke job Alder Hey children’s hospital set for financial close in the spring
Miller wins £43m of health work
Contractor wins four health facilities projects worth £43m through the ProCure21+ framework
Osborne launches £40bn infrastructure guarantee scheme
Government will also provide loans for stalled PFI schemes
Private hospital developer seeks cash injection
Cirlce Holdings moves to raise £46m to stave off insolvency
Sweett Group bags £19m health jobs
Consultant appointed on Cumbrian community hospital and health centre
Galliford Try bags £56m in London work
Contract wins include health and social care centre and three affordable housing schemes
Stoke shortlists four for £108m housing PFI
Balfour Beatty, Lovell Partnership, and Morgan Sindall among contenders for sheltered housing programme
£550m Qatar win boosts EC Harris
Project will ‘benefit the firm in targeting more health work’, says global account leader
Laing O'Rourke wins £288m Alder Hey contract
Contractor successful bidder for new Merseyside hospital deal
Property company to manage NHS estate
Department of Health confirms it is planning to set up a company to take over NHS property
Capita and BDP shortlisted for £40m Sheffield hospital
Six make the cut for children’s hospital design contract
Vinci picked for £16m Ludlow Health Facility
Firm will draw up plans alongside Amber Infrastructure and Aedas Architects
Major private hospital wins planning battle
Planning inspector cites “the need to support economic growth” in Southampton
Willmott Dixon wins £14.1m health centre and school contract
Firm has secured over £100m of health sector jobs since July
Up to 100 BDP staff to lose jobs after project delay
Cuts follow ‘pause’ in design process of £420m Brighton hospital job and public sector cuts
Health White Paper available now
Report offers in-depth guide to opportunities in the health sector over the next four years
Future Health & Care Expo opens in London
Two-day conference looks at delivery of healthcare and features big construction names working in the sector
FCBS to redevelop hospital
City and Country Group has appointed architects to redevelop Bristol hospital site
Eight architects battle for mental health job
AHMM and Allies and Morrison among those shortlisted for London NHS job
Willmott Dixon bags P21+ hat-trick
Contractor will deliver £20m worth of projects through the health framework
Government admits reported Procure 21+ figures were wrong
Figures actually referred to old framework Procure 21
£90m PFI hospital on hold as trusts review finances
Viability of PFI projects under scrutiny despite last week’s announcement of £1.3bn pipeline
Shortlist for £165m Cambridge hospital cut to two
Consortiums headed by either Bouygues or Skanska will win the contract
King’s College Hospital lodges legal action against Costain
Hospital claims contractor failed to repair defects
Laing O'Rourke reaches financial close on CAD$2.1bn hospital
Firm is part of a joint venture that has won a major Canadian hospital project
Laing O’Rourke wins £120m Guy’s cancer centre
Contractor-led consortium wins RIBA-run design contest
Procure 21+ reviews ‘invaluable' senior level jobs
Efficiency savings lead to concerns over management of new healthcare framework
Firm wins health unit
ISG Jackson will build child and mental health services unit
Rada shower range: Safe to touch
The shower unit has been designed to be easily serviced and safe to touch at all times
Carillion bags £335m Liverpool hospital job
Carillion-led consortium beats rival team led by Interserve to Royal Liverpool hospital contract
Mace wins £30m Cromwell Hospital refit
Exclusive: Firm named as preferred bidder for high-profile refit of BUPA’s Cromwell Hospital in Kensington, London.
Skanska and Sir Robert McAlpine drop out of £660m NHS race
List of bidders narrows to eight for £660m framework for the NHS in Scotland
Government will compensate bidders of cancelled PF2 projects
But infrastructure chief plays down size of project pipeline for revised version of PFI
'Son of PFI': Brum health project among first to benefit
Exclusive: A hospital project in Birmingham, along with schools and defence projects, among first to benefit from ‘son of PFI’
Bam wins £40m Swansea hospital job
Bam Construct has won the job to build a £40m extension to Morriston Hospital in Swansea
Go ahead for delayed £150m Edinburgh hospital
Royal Hospital for Sick Children designed by Nightingale Associates and BMJ Architects
Lend Lease bags £70m hospital job
Contractor beats Kier, BAM and Vinci to Northumberland emergency hospital project
Interserve bags £300m NHS Midlands contract
Firm named preferred bidder for seven year support services deal
Laing O'Rourke confirmed for £237m Alder Hey job
Laing O’Rourke, John Laing and Interserve chosen as preferred consortium for the new Liverpool hospital
Exclusive: PFI project count plunges 85% after policy review
Government refuses to set timeline for new-style PFI despite just two deals reaching close this year
Industry hits out at government delay over PFI
Budget fall out as ministers warned lost time costs jobs
Libya plans 'at least' seven new hospitals
UKTI reveals country investigating PPP models to finance hospital buildings programme
Movers & makers 2 March 2012: Healthcare
A round-up up news from healthcare manufacturers
Selling unused NHS estate could reap £1bn
The NHS is sitting on underused estate equivalent to the entire footprint of Sainsbury’s UK stores, report finds
Lansley announces plan for NHS property company
Health secretary says new government-owned company NHS Property Services Ltd will take over NHS estate
NHS gets surprise £300m for 'spend ready' capital projects
Department of Health makes £300m available for NHS capital projects ready to start this year
First images unveiled of Maggie's Aberdeen
Cancer care centre has been designed by Oslo-based Snohetta
PFI pipeline 'unaffected' by Treasury review
Some of the £8.5bn of PFI projects in the public pipeline will be asked to ‘learn lessons’ of review
Public Health Index: PFI work dries up
Growth in the public health sector will only happen with a new pfi model
Newcastle gets £25m organ transplant facility
Centre will be the first in the UK dedicated to organ transplantation
Willmott Dixon wins sixth ProCure 21+ project
Contract with Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is worth £15m
Lord Crisp: Construction industry can help cut NHS costs
Former NHS boss urges industry to approach health service with space-saving designs
Architects appointed to Bristol Hospital regeneration
The grade-II listed site will be gradually restored over the next six or seven years
NHS trusts endangered by new-build PFI contracts, says minister
Liabilities from £12.6bn of PFI contracts put 22 hospital trusts in jeopardy
MPs attack 'poor value' PFI
Treasury Select Committee calls on government to stall procurement of £450m Liverpool hospital
Carillion signs off on £1.7bn hospital in Canada
PPP contract spans 30 years with construction starting this month
KPJ International Specialist Hospital: Best of health
Nightingale Associates’ luxury private hospital is based in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Leadbitter wins £30m care homes contract
Firm will build assisted living and care home schemes for BPHA
Galliford Try picks up £40m healthcare jobs
Announcement comes the day after winning £73m of energy and housing work
NHS denies review of hospital procurement
Department of Health says Procure 21 + will remain but says in future focus will be on making use of existing buildings rather than building new ones
NHS could earn £1bn from estate sell-off, says EC Harris
Similar yearly savings could be made from improving FM supply chain and equipment procurement, consultant claims
Mitie uses jet fighter technology to power hospital
Firm signs 15-year deal with Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust
Polyflor's pearlescent surface
This homogenous vinyl product is designed for commercial environments and suitable for use in healthcare
Above-ceiling heating
Celotex’s above-ceiling heating panels avoid the need for radiators in hospitals
Precision sink mixer
This sink mixer offers a high level of temperature control and saves water by up to 50%
Movers and makers: Healthcare
This week’s news from healthcare manufacturers
