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OCS secures new deal with York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

OCS Healthcare & Education has won a three-year contract to continue providing manned security and car parking services for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The new contract award will see OCS continue to build and develop its ...

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Grundon rolls out new clinical waste containers to help improve sustainability

Grundon Waste Management is rolling out a new range of carbon-cutting clinical waste containers to help customers improve their sustainability credentials. From April, it is swapping single-use clinical waste bins made from virgin plastic with ones made from responsibly-sourced post-consumer ...

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Sodexo Healthcare research reveals key role of non-clinical interventions in patient recovery

The majority (93 per cent) of inpatients believe they are more likely to get better quicker and leave hospital sooner if they have had a positive hospital experience, according to new YouGov research for Sodexo Healthcare. Non-clinical interventions were critical ...

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Jump signs up 16 NHS Trusts alongside £100k funding win from SBRI Healthcare 

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 ...

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Power to the NHS

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 ...

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NHSPS delivers £53m in cost efficiencies for the NHS during pandemic

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 ...

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Sodexo introduces Chloe the robot to its cleaning team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital

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 ...

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New hospitals set for a sustainable future

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 ...

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Sodexo appoints UK & Ireland healthcare CEO

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 ...

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Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust becomes Carbon Literate 

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 ...

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