INSTITUTE NEWS


Webinartofocuson‘Healthcare Engineering Roadmap’


Following the launch of the joint document, A Healthcare Engineering Roadmap For Delivering Net Zero Carbon, last month (HEJ – March 2021), IHEEM will be hosting a webinar on 14 April as part of the 2021 Digital Programme to ‘Stay Connected. Keep Informed. Get Ahead’. This online event, with support from the Carbon and Energy Fund and HEFMA, will feature three live sessions, on: n Decarbonising the NHS in the Context of National Policy.


n Introducing ‘A Healthcare Engineering Roadmap for Delivering Net Zero Carbon’.


n Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: a Practical Example of Progressive Decarbonisation.


In addition, there will be discussions on decarbonisation and what it really means, plus helpful tips on future funding


opportunities from Jo Mills, Assistant Director of


Programmes at Salix Finance. There will also be time for Q&As during each session.


Other confirmed speakers include: n Dame Sue Ion, DBE, FRS, FREng, FIMMM, Fellow of the Royal Society.


n Nick Starkey, Policy Director, Royal Academy of Engineering.


n Andrew Chatten, Director of Estates, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.


n Guy Kieser, Associate Director of Estates, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.


Also speaking will be Stephen Lowndes, Steven Heape, and Jon Gwynn, from the Carbon and Energy Fund, Pete Sellars from IHEEM, and Jonathan Stewart from HEFMA.


Please register now via the IHEEM website: www.iheem.org.uk/events


Position on AE use of JAG Audit Tool clarified


IHEEM recently received a request from the Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy (JAG) to clarify its professional position regarding the use and status of the JAG Audit Tool by IHEEM-registered decontamination AEs. IHEEM and the Decontamination Technical Platform (DTP) fully endorse and support the use of the JAG process and tool in the interests of improved patient safety. The Institute expects all IHEEM-registered Authorising Engineers for decontamination to adhere to the procedures set out to use this audit tool.


From left: Dame Sue Ion, Andrew Chatten, Guy Kieser, and Stephen Lowndes.


IHEEM’s updated DTP JAG Audit User documents confirm that the IHEEM DTP cannot endorse any deviation from registered AEs carrying out audits in person or remotely. However, they accept there may be exceptional circumstances where there is a need to consider deviation from standard practice. IHEEM is clear that any variation to planned site audits should be agreed on by the client’s professional representative and the approved AE. Updated guidance will shortly be circulated to all IHEEM AEs, and will be available to download in the ‘Members only’ section of the IHEEM website.


Bringing the healthcare sector into the digital era


Cognica, a provider of ‘intelligent information management solutions and services’ to the construction and estate management markets, has joined IHEEM as a Company Affiliate.


Cognica offers a full information lifecycle management and consultancy service across multiple sectors, including healthcare, utilities, construction, and education. The company says it ‘partners with construction and estate management customers to satisfy their information needs, and support the evolution of their information repositories into the digital era’. Its ‘solutions’ provide information for the operation and maintenance of estates – including asset maintenance, planned and preventative maintenance, operation and maintenance manuals, building information models, fire safety, document management systems, and digital twins. The business says it offers


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clients the ability to streamline their processes and integrate systems, ‘thereby enabling simpler and more efficient collaboration and information management’.


Cognica works for most of the UK’s leading construction companies on a wide range of projects nationwide, as well as for building owners and operators. “We have a range of bespoke and standard solutions that we can offer the healthcare sector,” explains Cognica MD, Barry Crisp. “For example, with the


industry increasingly moving into a digital era with online management, we have developed innovative 3D visual portal technology, which merges 360° interactive laser photogrammetry building scans with document management systems to create digital twins of estates. This enables clients to securely navigate digitally around a facility, have easy access to document management systems, take millimetre- accurate measurements, plot wayfinder routes, and train contractors on site safety, all remotely, and thus contribute to a reduced carbon footprint. This could be game- changing for healthcare settings, where access issues, cost management, and time pressures, can often be the greatest obstacles.”


The image shows a Point-Cloud and fire safety compliance solution for a residential project for Galliard Homes.


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