COMMENT IHEEM Looking to the future requires concerted action
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
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Filling engineering skills gaps, and the difficulties of recruiting engineering apprentices to eventually take over the running and maintenance of hospital buildings and plant from more seasoned personnel, is a topic we regularly cover in HEJ.
Although – as Troup Bywaters + Anders highlighted at last month’s IHEEM Company Affiliate event (page 10) – there are organisations working tirelessly to recruit and retain new engineering talent, with dwindling funding, and competition from other outwardly ‘more exciting’ engineering fields, many large acute NHS Trusts continue to struggle here. Working hard to make the healthcare engineering profession more attractive to both aspiring engineers and those starting out in their career is indeed one of IHEEM President, Peter Sellars’ stated goals for the Institute.
During a recent visit to University Hospital Southampton, one of the England’s larger acute hospital sites, I met with the Trust’s estates director and its head of estates maintenance, who enthusiastically described their recent introduction of a Workforce Development Programme designed to ensure a sufficient supply of good engineers in the short-to-medium term. One element has seen
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Indigo portfolio expands with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals win
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Indigo, the global specialist in hospital parking, has signed a five-year contract with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, expanding its strong healthcare portfolio, which includes working with 11 NHS Trusts at 19 hospital sites, and managing over 130 car parks, and over 20,000 spaces, across the UK. Among the company’s high profile NHS Trust customers are Addenbrooke’s Hospital (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust), and the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).
Under the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals contract, Indigo will deliver parking management services including cash collection, parking enforcement, and equipment maintenance, as well as the potential for delivering staff permits in the future, at the Trust’s two main hospital sites – the Northern General Hospital and The Royal Hallamshire Hospital. As part of the new contract Indigo will be responsible for 3,800 staff, patient,
and visitor parking spaces. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is one of the UK’s largest and busiest NHS Foundation Trusts, providing a full range of hospital and community services across Sheffield, as well as specialist care throughout the region. Phillip Herring, Indigo’s managing director, said: “We’re delighted to be working in partnership with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals to provide a seamless parking experience for patients, visitors, and staff. The award of this new contract
strengthens Indigo’s portfolio of prestigious contracts within the healthcare sector. “Customer experience is crucial to the future of hospital car parking. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our services for our customers, and we will continue to invest in this area. We look forward to beginning working with the hospital in October.”
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a number of the Trust’s apprentice engineers ‘embedded’ on ‘rotation’ in key clinical areas throughout Southampton General Hospital, not only giving the individuals a rounded experience, but also providing the departments with a valuable, readily available engineering resource to address issues not requiring the attention of a fully qualified tradesperson. My two ‘interviewees’ were keen to emphasise, however, that, as part of their wider workforce development work, they will also be focusing more strongly on graduate-level recruitment, while continuing to seek skilled tradespeople – a task made more challenging by the more lucrative overall ‘packages’ available outside the NHS. A report will appear in HEJ soon. I would also like to draw readers’ attention this month to the article by Carbon and Energy Fund director, David Mackey (pages 27-29), explaining how, later this year, the CEF will launch a new carbon and energy saving guide ‘for the Model Hospital’, with the plan being to publish and disseminate the new guide in HEJ before this year’s Healthcare Estates event. Watch this space for further details.
Jonathan Baillie I Editor
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