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PPL Training’s industry partnerships expand its offering
Over the years, PPL Training has established partnerships to offer courses tailored to the healthcare estate, enhancing the training experience for attendees, and augmenting their existing offering. n H&S Training Services, the company’s longest-standing partner, assists with the delivery of Confined Spaces training, calling on 22 years of experience.
n EEC Consultant brings experience and knowledge from positions within NHS Estates operational management, and IHEEM Fellowship, to provide in- depth NHS PAM Training.
n Boiler manufacturer, Fulton, provides Steam Boiler Operator training, aligned with HSE guidance.
n Rise Compliance applies 25 years of experience to AP Lift and Passenger Release training, following HTM 08- 02 guidance.
n HTM Authorising Services draw on 35 years of field experience to deliver Medical Gas Pipeline Systems training. The company also specified and installed PPL’s medical gas and ventilation training facilities.
PPL said: “These partnerships highlight the power of collaboration in enhancing the learning experiences for delegates, while broadening our educational portfolio.”
Having recently secured City & Guilds Assured status for the majority of its training courses, PPL Training has also refreshed its IHEEM Knowledge Partner training course listings.
Over 80 courses are now available, covering key disciplines across the healthcare estate, delivered in-line with HTM guidance. These include:
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n Authorising Engineer. n Facilities Management Contract Managers.
n NHS Premises Assurance Model. n High Voltage HTM 06-03. n Low Voltage HTM 06-02. n Ventilation HTM 03-01. n Safe Water HTM 04-01. n Medical Gas Pipeline Systems HTM 02-01.
n Lifts HTM 08-02. n Fire Safety HTM 05. n Steam Boiler Operator. n Mechanical and Pressure Systems. n Electrical and Mechanical Conversion. n Electrical Installations. n Confined Spaces and Working at Height.
PPL added: “By working closely with industry bodies such as IHEEM, partnering with organisations out in the field problem-solving day-to- day, and listening to the needs of healthcare estates professionals, we will ‘Deliver Excellence as Standard’ for many years to come.” The photo on the left shows PPL’s Slough medical gas and ventilation facilities.
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Considerable variations remain in Net Zero drive
Speaking at an online Westminster Health Forum in late February (pages 37-40), Under-Secretary for Health, Lord Markham, discussed the ‘critical role of infrastructure’ in achieving the NHS’s Net Zero targets. While acknowledging that the NHS had already ‘done an incredible job of rising to this challenge’ – for example all 212 NHS Trusts across England now have Green Plans – he noted that with under half of England’s NHS Trusts having dedicated Energy managers last year, and over 300 NHS sites still reporting using oil for heating, there remained ‘considerable variations’. At COP 28 the Prime Minister had been clear
that fighting climate change was ‘not just a moral good, but rather fundamental to our prosperity and security’. Having already – through the Health and Care Act 2022 – placed the first ever climate change legal duties on a health system anywhere in the world, the Government was now ‘going further’, having committed to include climate issues in the forthcoming review of the NHS Constitution, with a new ‘green NHS constitutional value’ set to sit alongside the NHS’s existing values, and ‘underwrite the NHS’s efforts on the environment’. Tis would, Lord Markham said, ‘commit everyone involved in the NHS to strive to protect the environment’. Many Trusts have harnessed Government
funding for – in some cases – pretty far-reaching ‘green’ initiatives. Tis month, for example (see the same article), will see a new solar farm the size of 22 football pitches become operational at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital, powering the hospital for three quarters of the year, and expected to save Te Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust around £15-20 m over the next 20 years. Vital Energi has installed over 15,000 electricity- generating solar panels to create what it says is the largest single source of green energy on a UK hospital site. Interestingly, in a wide-ranging speech balancing
the positives so far achieved with the imperative to keep going – the Minister told delegates Britain was ‘already a clean energy superpower’; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero figures show that renewable energy capacity has increased five-fold since 2010, with the fastest reduction in emissions of any major economy, down almost 50% since 1990. It is clear, however, that there remains considerable work still to do in the face of tough carbon emission reduction targets.
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