GMS launches ambitious Green Plan https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/news/gms-launches-ambitious-green-plan/

Gloucestershire Managed Services (GMS) has today (3 November) launched its Green Plan alongside Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Plan details the actions the organisations will take to reduce the…

Gloucestershire Hospitals restaurants open to the public https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/news/gloucestershire-hospitals-restaurants-open-to-the-public/

From Monday 19 July, Gloucestershire Hospitals will be reopening its restaurant doors to visitors and patients after more than a year since the start of the COVID pandemic.Fosters restaurant at…

International Women in Engineering Day https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/news/international-women-in-engineering-day/

For International Women in Engineering Day we asked some of our GMS engineers (and those with associated roles) about their job and what it's like to work in a hospital…

GMS apprentice of the year 2021 https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/news/gms-apprentice-of-the-year-2021/

Kate Trouse, Medical Engineering Apprentice, has been recognised as Gloucestershire Managed Services Apprentice of the Year 2021. We spoke to Kate about what it means to be an apprentice with…

£13.7 million funding boost for Gloucestershire NHS environmental projects https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/news/13-7-million-funding-boost-for-gloucestershire-nhs-environmental-projects/

Gloucestershire Managed Services has secured £13.7 million to carry out a range of environmental projects at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The project will help in achieving NHS carbon reduction…

Gloucestershire hospital caterers launch Christmas in a Box https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/news/gloucestershire-hospital-caterers-launch-christmas-in-a-box/

Christmas is coming and Gloucestershire Managed Services (GMS) catering team have come up with a new innovative solution to this year’s traditional Christmas lunch – Christmas in a Box.Every year…

A day in the life of Medical Engineering https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/a-day-in-the-life/a-day-in-the-life-of-medical-engineering/

Hospitals use a wide-variety of medical equipment every day in the diagnosis and treatment of patients. From the basic thermometer to cutting-edge equipment such as ventilators which keep people alive,…

Sterile Services vital role in hospital surgery https://www.gms-facilities.co.uk/a-day-in-the-life/sterile-services-vital-role-in-hospital-surgery/

Every day, roughly 230 patients have an operation at Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. It’s a figure that has been reduced during COVID-19, but surgery hasn’t stopped. People…