Estates & facilities managers – is it all down to you?

Estates and facilities management has become more prominent within the healthcare sector in recent years. This has been driven by a number of factors including patient choice, payment by results and the media attention drawn by cases of hospital acquired infection...

TV chef backs hospital food project for older people

Pioneering research from the University of Reading is being used to enhance the taste of hospital food to help prevent or treat malnutrition in older people.

The project is supported by celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal and funded by Research into Ageing, the medical research arm of Age UK.

The research is using a taste central to Japanese food to modify the sensory properties of food to increase its flavour...

Keeping it clean

Even before it was officially opened by Scotland’s public health minister Shona Robison, the new Hawick Dental Centre had gained itself a reputation for the quality of its decontamination facilities, reports Richard Mackillican

Hawick’s new dental centre opened to the public in April 2009 and has already won praise for the cleanliness of its surgical instruments.

The centre, which was built as part of jointly funded project between...

The right time, the right place

A recent survey has found that NHS staff waste huge amounts of time and therefore resources trying to locate equipment. National Health Executive spoke toNeil Lawrenceto find out how RFID can help staff to save time and make savings