Workforce
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Best practices for recruitment in the public sector in 2025
With employment laws changing, APSCo sets out how best to manage public sector recruitment in 2025
Waste and Recycling
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Simpler Recycling: what you need to know
From 31 March 2025, England's healthcare facilities must comply with new Simpler Recycling regulations that require the separation of household-like recyclable materials, including paper, plastics, metals, glass, and food waste. Paul Sanderson, chief executive of The Recycling Association, outlines the key changes, legal responsibilities and practical steps organisations must take to ensure compliance.
Infection Control
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Water coolers in healthcare environments
Water coolers can support hydration in healthcare settings, but they also pose risks related to water hygiene and infection control. In this article, Peter Gunn, senior consultant, Water Hygiene Centre, explores key consideration, potential hazards, and best practices for their safe management

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Healthcare cleaning: the lifesaving work we must recognise, yet we don't
Kelsey Hargreaves, technical manager at BICSc ,explores the urgent need to professionalise cleaning in healthcare, highlighting the unsung heroes who protect patients daily and calling for the respect and recognition they deserve
Facilities Management
Electronic contracts
Saving time and money through effective contract management
Paul Bullard, product director at SFG20, the industry standard for building maintenance specification, shares his insights on how effective contract management can save public sector businesses significant time and money, and overcome the most common obstacles
Procurement
Procurement
Navigating the new procurement rules in healthcare
The UK’s most significant procurement overhaul in a decade has now come into effect, reshaping the supply of goods, non-healthcare services and works to healthcare bodies. Jan Cumming, legal director, and Viney Jhalley, associate, at Uk and Ireland law firm Browne Jacobson, explain the substantial changes in the Procurement Act 2023 for NHS trusts, independent providers and their suppliers.
Hospital beds in corridors
Delayed discharge: how operational research is tackling the NHS bed blocking crisis
The IPACS project, a collaboration between researchers and healthcare professionals, used advanced simulation modelling to tackle this issue, offering data-driven solutions to improve patient flow and ease system pressures, explains Professor Christos Vasilakis, founding director of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI2), academic scholar in Operational Research/Management Science at the University of Bath and a Fellow of the Operational Research Society (FORS).
Transport
Ambulance
Technology helping to predict ambulance breakdowns
Ordnance Survey is working with South Central Ambulance Service to use predictive maintenance, AI, and geospatial data to keep ambulances on the road and responding to critical incidents faster
Technology
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Transforming healthcare through digital innovation: a system-wide approach
Ahead of his talk at Rewired 2025, group chief digital officer at NHS Humber Health Partnership, shares his insights on how digital transformation is reshaping patient care and system-wide operations trhough innovative solutions and strategic development

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