Corporate services provider, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), has launched its inaugural ‘Sustainable Healthcare Recycling & Waste Management’ framework agreement designed to help the NHS achieve its ambition of reaching net zero carbon by 2040. The framework agreement has ...

Richard Fitzsimmons has been appointed to the role of Head of Data and Intelligence at NHS Property services. Data and technology specialist Fitzsimmons, who was appointed in 2019 as Operations Business Intelligence Lead at the government-owned property organisation, will now ...

Mitie has acquired Cliniwaste, which specialises in treating plastic waste generated by the NHS and pharmaceutical manufacturers, turning it in to a reusable resource. The acquisition is part of Mitie’s strategy of providing sustainable waste management solutions to its clients, ...

Mears Group has been appointed as facilities management provider for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT). The five-year contract, which commenced on 1 October, sees Mears take responsibility for ...

Grundon Waste Management is helping to deliver significant carbon savings for the NHS with the introduction of the UK’s first proven nationwide inhaler return and recycling scheme. Inhalers alone are estimated to account for four per cent of all NHS ...

Barnet Hospital in partnership with Medirest, the healthcare division of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has achieved the prestigious NHS ‘Exemplar’ status across portering, catering and cleaning. A team of NHS England representatives visited the hospital in July this year ...

Royal Surrey County Hospital and its partner Medirest, the healthcare arm of Compass Group UK & Ireland have been awarded the first NHS Exemplar status for outstanding portering services, which has only been recently introduced to the portfolio of Exemplar ...

Rye, Winchelsea & District Memorial Hospital has become the UK’s first community hospital to achieve carbon neutrality. The installation of its new renewable systems was followed by confirmation from its electricity supplier that all power now comes from fully renewable sources ...

Preston-based Eric Wright Partnerships has secured a place on the new NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) Healthcare Planning, Construction Consultancy and Ancillary Services Framework. Agreement, Lot 9 Healthcare Planning. As a procurement organisation, NHS SBS drives improvements and increases ...

Kier has won a three-year contract with University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust (UHB) to deliver a programme of capital works, with the aim of achieving a modern, contemporary, and clinically efficient estate by 2026. Following on from the success of ...