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Storage woes: What is causing rips in your instrument packaging and how to prevent them?

Storage woes: What is causing rips in your instrument packaging and how to prevent them?

Ocura discusses how smarter storage systems can reduce costs, enhance patient safety, and streamline efficiency across your sterile services
Modernising the hospital estate: A guide to asset management programmes and how they work

Modernising the hospital estate: A guide to asset management programmes and how they work

Edward Gee from Platinum Facilities explains how asset management programmes differ from maintenance, and the benefits to the hospital
Creating therapeutic spaces through Good Design

Creating therapeutic spaces through Good Design

Alfie Chappell from Kingsway Group Global explains that, consciously or not, our perceptions of a given space and the emotional responses we feel entering are influenced by the built environment
Can the NHS’ new waste strategy extend to estate management?

Can the NHS’ new waste strategy extend to estate management?

Sian Lewis from Premier Modular discusses the NHS’s new initiative to try and reduce waste by “designing for life”
Combe Valley: Building a 54-bed mental health hospital on a greenfield site

Combe Valley: Building a 54-bed mental health hospital on a greenfield site

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT) gives an insight into its new mental health facility, built with the help of Kier Construction and Gilling Dod
Top 10 reasons for GP burnout in 2025

Top 10 reasons for GP burnout in 2025

Dr Andrew Whiteley from Lexacom discusses why nearly a quarter of GPs feel so stressed they can’t cope about 1-2 times a week
Philips's Managing Director of UK & Ireland talks about the future of healthcare technology

Philips's Managing Director of UK & Ireland talks about the future of healthcare technology

The Managing Director of UK & Irelands, Mark Leftwich, talks to Sophie Bullimore about the benefits of a clear vision for a single patient record, the use of virtual wards in diagnostics, and what is the reality for AI in diagnostics
Getting first impressions right in mental healthcare design

Getting first impressions right in mental healthcare design

Initial moments in a mental health facility can be instrumental in a patient’s experience and recovery there. Robin Graham from Gilling Dod Architects examines what is required for a good first impression
Op-ed: Why Sajid Javid’s £20 fines are not the cure for NHS no shows

Op-ed: Why Sajid Javid’s £20 fines are not the cure for NHS no shows

Dr Benyamin Deldar from Deep Medical argues that charging £20 for a GP appointment, scrapping free prescriptions, and fining patients for missed visits won’t fix the NHS - it’ll deepen the health inequality crisis
12 months with ePMA: Setting the bar for safer medication management

12 months with ePMA: Setting the bar for safer medication management

Julia Scott, Pharmacist and Chief Experience Officer at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, reflects on the trust’s journey with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) one year after implementation and how it is helping set a new standard for safer, more effective medicines optimisation
Data-first AI: turning everyday hospital bottlenecks into opportunity

Data-first AI: turning everyday hospital bottlenecks into opportunity

Rami Riman, Director of Clinical and Business Improvements at InterSystems, discusses the practical, day-to-day impact AI can have in healthcare, particularly in hospital and operational settings
What is pathology's path to digital imaging infrastructure?

What is pathology's path to digital imaging infrastructure?

Liam Canavan, Healthcare Lead at Loadbalancer.org, discusses why following in other imaging sectors' footprints is not the answer for pathologists
Researcher Sabine van der Veer: Integrating independent app data with EHRs

Researcher Sabine van der Veer: Integrating independent app data with EHRs

Health informatics expert van der Veer talks about the challenges and results of taking an app that gets self-reporting data from patients and integrating it into regional electronic health records, as well as using a national NHS login
Rapid refurbishment at Queen’s Hospital, Romford

Rapid refurbishment at Queen’s Hospital, Romford

David Bailey Furniture, together with Millane Contract Services, delivered a fast-turnaround refurbishment project at Queen’s Hospital in Romford, focusing on the enhancement of key clinical workspaces
Design in Mental Health 2025 review: A much-needed reminder

Design in Mental Health 2025 review: A much-needed reminder

A look at who attended this year’s DIMH conference and a review of what you missed at the annual event for those building and operating mental health facilities
Investment in the NHS must prioritise new tech

Investment in the NHS must prioritise new tech

Dr Anas Nader, co-founder and CEO, Patchwork Health, discusses the significant challenges faced by NHS healthcare staff due to outdated IT equipment and infrastructure
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