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Will AI be the answer to rescuing health and social care from admin burnout?

Dr Jonathan Shaw, former surgeon, emergency physician, and Clinical Director at System C, discusses how AI can help healthcare professionals with admin burnout

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Digitisation, sustainability and social value: Flashback to the 2024 BBH Awards

Relive the Building Better Healthcare Awards with us!
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Northeast hospitals trusts officially launch joint Community Diagnostic Centre

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have teamed with Answer Digital to launch a joint Community Diagnostic Centre
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Bouygues UK tops out on new eye centre

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust marked the significant milestone of Bouygues UK topping out on the Oriel project with a ceremony on-site
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Why more nurses will not fix the NHS’ problems

NHS waiting lists hit a record 7.5m as of April 2024 and burnout levels for healthcare professionals are steadily rising. Connie Moser, CEO of workforce solutions company Navenio, discusses why the longstanding approach of simply hiring more staff is no longer viable

Milford Hospital CDC is nearing completion

MTX and partners have completed the building phase of the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Milford Hospital, part of a broader government initiative to expand local healthcare services

Exclusive: Dowds' £30m Queen Elizabeth Hospital live project

Dowds Group exclusively shared with Building Better Healthcare the methods used in the most extensive, site-wide infrastructure upgrade ever undertaken for a fully operational NHS hospital in the UK

BBH health tech round-up: November projects

Building Better Healthcare has rounded up who has been chosen by the NHS for technology projects in November

New Hospital Programme: Proposed sites confirmed for two new hospitals in Lancashire

The NHS has revealed the potential locations for new hospitals that will replace Royal Preston Hospital and Royal Lancaster Infirmary

The risk of messaging apps in healthcare: BlackBerry discusses data privacy with secure communications

As threats against critical infrastructure increase, how can NHS Trusts take control of their data privacy ‘Wild West’ amid NHS App security concerns? Paul Webber, Senior Product Management Director at BlackBerry discusses

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A vision for AI-enabled healthcare: Turning scribbled notes into usable data

Ahead of his upcoming presentation at Digital Health Rewired 2025, Dr Joe Zhang shares his insights on how language AI and robust data infrastructure could transform the NHS, addressing the challenges of unstructured data and the critical need for ethical, transparent data governance in healthcare

NHS Arden and GEM’s social value contribution rewarded with Silver accreditation

NHS Arden and GEM has been awarded the Silver level of the Social Value Quality Mark (SVQM) – recognising significant achievement in growing and embedding social value in its work

Construction begins on £25 million Community Diagnostic Centre for Slough

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust has engaged Western Building Systems and NHS Property Services for construction and estates services on the new centre on the Upton Hospital site

Three new NHS frameworks launched to streamline procurement of soft facilities

NHS Shared Business Services has unveiled three new procurement solutions for linen and laundry, grounds maintenance, and security services with a combined value of £375m

Morgan Sindall breaks ground on £7m Worthing Hospital project

Following design by Crowther Associates Architects, Morgan Sindall started construction work on the £7m Urgent Treatment Centre at Worthing Hospital

NHS Trust declares 'major' cyber security incident

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust suffered a cyber security issue on Monday 25 November and issued an update

AI could save public sector £38bn annually by 2030, new research finds

New research by Public First, commissioned by Google Cloud, found that AI could save the UK public sector £38bn annually by 2030

Hard Labour

The Highland Marketing advisory board met to discuss Labour’s first 100 days in office, the Darzi review, the Budget, and prospects for technology in next year’s 10-Year Health Plan

NHS Property Services partners with ICB to deliver two major refurbishment projects

NHS Property Services has partnered with Bedfordshire, Luton, and Milton Keynes ICB to deliver two significant refurbishment projects, providing clinical space to support patient care

CCL Solutions and OPUS Building Services collab on ward projects for North Tyneside General Hospital

CCL Solutions and OPUS Building Services have completed a new general medicine ward at North Tyneside General Hospital and a ward for older people with fractures has also been extensively refurbished

‘Poor’ patient experiences of A&E services, Urgent and emergency care survey reveals

The Urgent and Emergency Care Survey 2024 by the Care Quality Commission has revealed that people using A&E services have reported ‘poor’ patient experiences

Using digital to tackle insomnia: Why hybrid models are critical in the NHS

Alison Gardiner, Behavioural Psychologist and founder of Sleepstation, discusses how digital healthcare is being used in the NHS to tackle insomnia, which the World Health Organisation has called a global epidemic

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Poole Hospital theatres are now open

Poole Hospital theatres officially opened on Tuesday 18 July. The occasion was marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony

Darwin Group introduces on-demand healthcare infrastructure solutions to support the NHS through winter pressures and beyond

UK’s leading specialist in healthcare construction launches new infrastructure solutions providing clinically approved spaces that can help alleviate patient admission,...

Empowering NHS Trusts and suppliers with flexible procurement solutions from SAF

As the NHS faces increasing pressures from rising patient demand, ageing facilities, limited capital budgets, and staff shortages, innovative approaches are essential to...

EMS Healthcare will showcase its mobile high-capacity unit at Healthcare Estates 2024

The flexible mobile medical solutions company will be showcasing one of its high-capacity units at Healthcare Estates 2024.

Open Standards – the debate continues but the benefits shine through

Andy Wilcox, Senior International Marketing Manager, and Andrew Harrison, Principal Product Manager, both of Imprivata, discuss approaches to open standards.

NHS requires system-wide flexible strategy to secure the future of its estates and buildings: New report

Harnessing the potential of flexible modular buildings to directly reduce the NHS backlog of some 7.6 million individual cases can help transform the future of the service...

A three-point plan for digital delivery

Sam Shah (pictured) has seen health tech policy up-close and worries that little progress has been made over the past five-years. However, he has a plan for any health and...

MEDSTOR equips scanning room for NHS hospital

Hospitals throughout the UK are demanding ever-more streamlined, modern spaces for treatment and patient care

Medstor repeats success with appointment to NHS SBS network

Medstor has once again been awarded a place on the prestigious NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) framework within Design, Furniture and Appliances 2: Lot 6 - Storage...

Standing up for health tech and SMEs: Shane Tickell’s vision

AS the new chair of the health and social care council at techUK, Shane Tickell talked to Highland Marketing about his determination to support small and innovative...

Achieving priorities and driving collaboration

The future of independent healthcare estates

Sustainability in the NHS: the criticality of data in achieving net zero

Despite the many well publicised issues facing health and care provision in the UK today, climate change continues to be a focus with long-term implications