Healthcare Sector

The sustainability engagement expert’s work for the NHS has received a major boost with the announcement from SBRI Healthcare that it has been awarded £99,076. Jump is one of 10 winners in the national funding competition, delivering a net zero ...

Alastair Morris, Chief Commercial Officer at Powerstar describes the role voltage regulation can play as part of a wider energy management strategy for healthcare The NHS operates 24/7, every day of the year, and a stable and resilient power supply ...

NHS Property Services (NHSPS)’s annual report has revealed that during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic it generated £53 million in cost efficiencies for the health service. Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, NHSPS – which owns and ...

Chloe the robot has joined Sodexo’s cleaning team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Named by young patients on the children’s ward, Chloe will be helping the team who keep Stoke Mandeville hospital a clean and ...

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has set an ambition to meet new standards for greener and more sustainable hospitals in the UK, as part of its Hospitals of the Future Project that will see the construction of two new state-of-the-art ...

Sodexo has appointed Philip Leigh as CEO Healthcare for the UK and Ireland. Leigh has extensive experience in the UK FM market and joins Sodexo from ISS where he was Chief Operating Officer. In his new role Leigh joins the ...

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first NHS Hospital Trust to officially become Carbon Literate. The Trust’s Sustainability Team has been working closely with the Carbon Literacy Project since April of this year in a new initiative to ...

A new partnership has been launched to support NHS Trusts in developing and implementing their decarbonisation strategies. Decarbonising Health Estates Partnership (DHEP) was soft launched as part of an industry roundtable to discuss NHS’ net zero challenge. Led by construction ...

Mace Construct and Willmott Dixon Construction are to form a consortium to jointly target construction work in the UK healthcare sector. The new initiative will see Mace’s contracting arm work with Willmott Dixon Construction to support each other on major ...

Sodexo is launching Protecta, an improved, evidence-based infection prevention approach for hospitals – a proposition that “goes beyond simply ensuring surfaces are visibly clean”. Protecta brings together highly trained frontline teams, best in class range of cleaning solutions relevant to infection ...