All Facilities management articles – Page 47
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Health secretary agrees to further consultation on critical care site
A row over the location of a new critical care hospital in south London has gone back to square one after NHS London persuaded the health secretary to re-open consultation.
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Hospitals told to focus on food and cleaning
Health minister Andy Burnham has told hospitals to focus on food and cleaning if they want to win good reviews from patients.
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Ballot on NHS Logistics strike
Workers at the NHS Logistics Authority, which supplies the NHS across England, are set to ballot for strike action in opposition to the awarding of a £4bn supplies contract to Texas-based company Novation and its German partner DHL
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Warning on Agenda for Change
Health minister Lord Warner has written to all senior managers in the NHS expressing concerns at the slow progress of ensuring contract staff in catering, cleaning and ancillary services are on contracts that give them parity with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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Six new hospitals approved in £1.5bn PFI spree
The government has approved six NHS private finance initiative hospital developments worth almost £1.5bn.
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Cash-strapped Pennine trust to sell off HQ in financial recovery drive
Pennine Acute Hospitals trust is set to sell off its headquarters in a bid to slash a £21m debt.The trust has brought in a financial recovery programme which will also see the loss of over 300 posts and 250 beds. Managers are hoping to raise 'significant capital' from the sale ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement: better buildings
Just four years since its inception, ProCure21 is helping over 130 trusts to deliver new facilities. It has 72 schemes on site and 97 in planning. Already, 92 schemes worth £369m have been completed.
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NHS plan estates target abandoned NEWS
HSJ EXCLUSIVE Next month's goal to cut maintenance backlog by a quarter was facing failure
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Phoenix breathes new life into mental health estates
Published: 18/11/2004, Volume II4, No. 5932 Page 9
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NHS Estates set to review infection guidance
Published: 06/05/2004, Volume II4, No. 5904 Page 5
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Mental health estates need long-term solutions
comment One-off crisis grant to hard-pressed London trust is is not the way forward
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Mental health estates - HSJ demands action now
comment: Too many depressing and dangerous environments persist
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Facilities director on 'special leave' pending probe
Published: 17/04/2003, Volume II3, No. 5851 Page 8 9
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Estates'PPP initiative attracts 135
More than 135 companies have expressed an interest in the £600m public-private partnership set to take over NHS Estates' trading arm, following its separation from the organisation's policy and regulatory functions.
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'Caveman catering'
The NHS plan says half of all hospitals must have 'ward housekeepers' by 2004 to ensure food from the new menus is served hot and well presented and that patients can eat it.