Healthcare news
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
Heat resistant waste system
This waste system is highly durable and suitable for schools, hospitals, hotels and residential buildings
Overhead mobility
A new patient lifting system is the world’s first to be wall mounted
Cyril Sweett and Miller bag £400m of Scottish projects
Deal to deliver health centres includes 10-year exclusivity
Morgan Sindall bags £26m London hospital contract
Contractor to deliver the Wohl Neuroscience Institute for King’s College London
£450m Liverpool hospital faces new delay
Anti-PFI pressure group opposing the scheme appeals judge’s decision to green light the project
Galliford Try secures £23m health and education contracts
Work includes £9m contracts at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee and a £8.1m deal for a new building at the University of Manchester
Galliford Try seals £26m LIFT deal in North London
Work on the redevelopment of Finchley Memorial Hospital will start in October
Connah's Quay healthcare centre by Holder Mathias: Doctor's orders
This healthcare centre in Connah’s Quay, north Wales, is now open
NHS bids to renegotiate £65bn PFI contracts
Hospitals bill too high in face of spending cuts, leading figures warn
Circle Hospital, Reading by Bryden Wood: Outside the Circle
Architect Bryden Wood has gained detailed planning consent for a £24m private hospital in Reading
Shepherd wins £16.5m Liverpool University contract
Six hundred researchers will work at Apex facility which will be completed by October 2011
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
Lightweight kerb
Charcon’s kerb weighs less than 6kg, is made from 88% recycled material and highly durable
HSE slashes audits
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) plans to slash unannounced workplace inspections by up to a third.
Treasury looks to PFI projects for savings
The Treasury launched a pilot scheme today, tasked with identifying savings on existing PFI projects.
Hill consultant on Spanish Vigo Hospital
Consultant’s Spanish arm Gerens Hill starts work on the Galicia scheme
Vinci and Sir Robert nab £33m hospital gig
Joint venture will build new wing for the Royal Oldham Hospital
Primus wins £5.3m NHS contract in East London
Deal with Ashley House will see construction of new health centre in Poplar
Labour would spend 'tens of billions' more on capital projects
Plans by shadow chancellor Alan Johnson would see £9.5bn more invested every year than Coalition
Floor at UK's most expensive PFI hospital remains empty
A whole floor of the £1bn PFI Barts and Royal London redevelopment is standing empty
Farrans and Heron bag £85m Merseyside hospitals deal
Two Northern Irish firms have picked up a contract to build five mental health hospitals on Merseyside.
Nanjing Medical University by BDP: Chinese medicine
Building Design Partnership has won the design competition for a medical faculty at Nanjing Medical University, in China’s Jiangsu province
Laing O'Rourke and Bam cut out of new ProCure21 framework
The government has announced the six firms on its new healthcare capital framework
Three bidders picked for £450m Liverpool hospital
Brookfield has been dropped from the running for the £450m Royal Liverpool hospital.
