INSTITUTE NEWS IHEEM


INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT


President


Peter Sellars CEng, FIHEEM, MBIFM, MAPM pete.sellars@iheem.org.uk


Chief Executive


Julian Amey MA, FRSA julian.amey@iheem.org.uk


Executive Manager Annabelle Morgan annabelle.morgan@iheem.org.uk


Membership Development Manager Chris Parker


chris.parker@iheem.org.uk


Events and Marketing Manager Craig Willcock


craig.willcock@iheem.org.uk


Administration Coordinator Clair Wilkins


clair.wilkins@iheem.org.uk


Membership Development Officer Karen Casey


karen.casey@iheem.org.uk


Advanced Business Administration Apprentice


Gemma Boulton g.boulton@iheem.org.uk


Tel: 023 9282 3186 Fax: 023 9281 5927 Email: office@iheem.org.uk Web: www.iheem.org.uk


Topical seminars aimed to guide and inform


Decontamination, fire safety, and electrical regulations for the medical sector, were the topics covered in the first in a series of seminars being held this year by IHEEM, staged in January and February, with a range of expert speakers sharing their experience and knowledge on some of the key issues to consider in each area for healthcare estates managers and healthcare engineers. IHEEM’s events and marketing manager, Craig Willcock, reports.


On 19 January the IHEEM


Decontamination Technical Platform presented a seminar looking at the ‘Implications of the Decontamination HTM 01’, which was held in London at the home of the London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House. The event featured a panel of speakers from across the UK healthcare sector, and was chaired by the chair of the IHEEM Decontamination Technical Platform, Robert Kingston. The first session, presented by decontamination veteran, Graham Stanton – a retired senior decontamination engineer at NHS Wales – Shared Services Partnership, and the current chair of the IHEEM AE(D) Registration Board, looked at the background to the HTM 01 guidance, and the need to maintain patient safety.


Differences in


decontamination guidance Health Facilities Scotland’s head of Decontamination and Incident Reporting Investigation Centre, Sulisti Holmes, then looked at the Scottish decontamination


Technical platforms


Decontamination TP decontamination@iheem.org.uk Electrical TP


electrical@iheem.org.uk


Medical Gas TP medgas@iheem.org.uk Ventilation TP


ventilation@iheem.org.uk Water TP


water@iheem.org.uk


Architecture and Design of the Built Environment TP architecture@iheem.org.uk


Medical Devices TP meddevices@iheem.org.uk


International TP: international@iheem.org.uk


On 19 January the IHEEM Decontamination Technical Platform presented a seminar looking at the ‘Implications of the Decontamination HTM 01’, at the home of the London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, in London.


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guidance, comparing it with the English and Welsh guidance, and exploring some of the key differences, as well as highlighting similarities between the current English and Welsh HTM guidance, and plans to incorporate a number of features from these two countries’ Health Technical Memoranda into future revisions of SHTM 01 and SHTM 06. Dr Jimmy Walker, scientific leader for Water and Decontamination at the Biosafety, Air and Water Microbiology Group at Public Health England, then looked at the evidence and studies behind the HTM guidance, in the process discussing vCJD studies, the results of which have clearly highlighted the need for careful precautions and good practice to maintain patient safety. He also looked at protein detection methods and identified the key changes to the HTM guidance.


Validation processes


Gary Wright, a commercial services and project manager at Steris Solutions, presented the day’s penultimate session,


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