All Facilities management articles – Page 21
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NewsNew care home operator takes over 240 Southern Cross sites
Southern Cross’s largest landlord NHP and turnaround experts Court Cavendish have formed a new company that becomes the UK’s third largest care home operator.
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HSJ KnowledgeEquipped for the future: the advantages of a long term technology plan
Replacing high value equipment can be expensive - but thinking of the future now shows that worthwhile savings are possible, once total cost of ownership has been assessed, writes Jeremy Knight.
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SupplementsEstates and facilities management: an HSJ supplement
Estate and facility managment issues are a major headache for the NHS at a time when the service has to prioritise far greater pressures. This HSJ supplement looks at valuable ways organisations can improve estates and facilities management.
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NewsNHS estate spend rising despite lower bed numbers
Spending on maintaining buildings, cleaning hospitals and feeding patients in the NHS has risen by nearly 8 per cent in a year despite a fall in the number of beds, Department of Health figures reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy NHS boards might be missing out on opportunities to act
A study of NHS staff using the Myers Brggs Type Indicator to undersand how people make decisions has revealed that NHS boards could be missing people with the inclination to truly innovate, and the drive to take action. Julian Bond and Naomi Chambers explain.
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HSJ KnowledgeBetter buying: how to achieve value for money procurement
Under pressure for savings, NHS organisations need to focus on best value supplies, and not just lower costs, warns Jonathan Wedgbury.
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NewsHospitals eye charges for disabled parking spaces
Campaigners have criticised plans to charge disabled people for parking at hospital appointments.
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HSJ Local
East and North Herts must find a new generator supplier
COMMERCIAL: East and North Hertfordshire Trust must find a new company to carry out a generator improvement programme after problems with a supplier.
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HSJ KnowledgeCan maternity care learn from how the retail sector operates?
Good managers will often look at other sectors to bring across good ideas and examples of good practice, but could maternity managers learn something from counterparts in the retail sector? Edwin van Teijlingen and Emma Pitchforth investigate.
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HSJ KnowledgeManaging medicines: avoiding ethical and legal difficulties
Substituting expensive medicines for less costly alternatives might be a measure earmarked for cutting costs, but financial and legal issues surround this approach and need careful adherence, warns Peter Feldschreiber.
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HSJ Local
Kent and Medway refutes food cost figure
FINANCE: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has refuted suggestions that it spends significantly more on food than other NHS organisations.
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HSJ Local
Combined heat and power plant for East and North Hertfordshire
FINANCE: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust’s board has approved a £2.7m full business case for a combined heat and power plant at Lister Hospital.
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HSJ Local
Eco savings for Frimley Park Hospital
FINANCE: Frimley Park Hospital says its combined cooling, heat and power plant (CHP) is saving it £367,000 a year.
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NewsSupply chain faces challenges on two fronts over legal concerns
The procurement service for the NHS is facing challenges on two fronts, HSJ can reveal, amid claims some of its frameworks could put trusts at risk of legal action.
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Comment'We cannot tolerate incompetence in the search for sustainability'
The turnaround of one factory into an efficient, clean, collaborative and effective faciility should shame healthcare organisations into doing more to make sure sustainability in the NHS becomes less an ideal and more a way of working, writes Sir John Oldham.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow town planners can help integrate better health practices into the community
A new online guide highlights how spatial planners can integrate health into local plans and practice to help improve public health in the local area, as Richard Powell and Andrew Ross explain.
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HSJ Local
£700m estates contract links primary and secondary care
FINANCE: A contract worth up to £700m is up for grabs in what is thought to be the first tender to provide estate and facilities management across primary and secondary care.
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NewsAgency workers to get improved employment deal
New rights for temporary and short term contract staff are due to come into force this weekend, helping to stamp out some of the exploitation agency staff face at work, the TUC has said.
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HSJ Local
Normality returns to Royal Hampshire hospital after gas leak
PERFORMANCE: Normal service has resumed at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital following a gas leak.
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HSJ Local
Gas leak closes services at Royal Hampshire hospital
PERFORMANCE: A gas leak at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester has caused services to close today.