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19 Making Malaysia’s public health system ‘greener’ Dr Khairul Azmy Kamaluddin, Ts Noor Muhammad Abd Rahman, and Dr Muhammad Syukri Imran Abdullah, discuss the advancement of sustainability programmes by the Malaysian Ministry of Health to reduce carbon emissions within the country’s public healthcare sector.
24 Offering quality healthcare with a ‘carbon neutral’ focus Albin Knauder, Daniel Kreuzer, and Bernhard Zahrl of Hospitaller Order of Saint John of
God, one of Austria’s largest private non- profit healthcare providers, analyse how the twin aims of providing high-quality 21st century healthcare, and pursuing a ‘carbon neutral’ policy, can be reconciled.
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29 Wales NHS: ‘Deliverable vision’ for the future needed Giving a keynote on the first morning of the IHEEM Wales Regional Conference, Stuart Douglas, Director, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership – Specialist Estates Services, set out some of the priorities and challenges for those working in healthcare engineering and estate management roles across the Welsh NHS.
34 NHS Wales CEO positive despite current challenges Giving the opening keynote at IHEEM’s Wales Regional Conference in Cardiff in May, Judith Paget CBE, Director General of Health and Social Services, and CEO, NHS Wales, discussed ‘what Wales’s future healthcare estate needs to look like’.
38 NHP Delivery Scorecard is ‘very start of golden thread’ Delivering the New Hospital Programme will require a clear and shared vision from the NHS Trusts, contractors, and suppliers involved. Head of Market Management, Emma Whigham, explains how the team developed its own ‘delivery scorecard’, ‘so that all sides fully understand the strategic aims and ambitions’.
41 Ensure external Legionella risk assessors can do the job IHEEM-registered AEs (Water), Steve Mount and Harry Evans, warn that it is imperative to make a judicious choice of risk assessor and water hygiene contractor as part of a concerted and effective strategy to combat Legionella in healthcare water systems.
47 MMC utilised to build new James Paget ‘concept ward’ A new 28-bedded ‘concept ward’ combining single-bedded en-suite rooms with four-bed bays, built by Health Spaces at James Paget University Hospital, will be used both to house patients while RAAC panel remediation is undertaken, and to enable the Trust operating the hospital to evaluate the ‘pros and cons’ of single- bedded rooms versus multi-bed patient accommodation.
55 Digital innovation helping to fight NHS energy cost crisis David Pownall, Vice-President of Services at Schneider Electric UK & Ireland, explains how digitisation of power management, and deployment of ‘intelligent’ building management systems in healthcare facilities, can bring considerable benefits for both healthcare estates and facilities managers and buildings’ occupants.
59 Shock-absorbent flooring’s impact on patient falls Dr. Amy Drahota, from the University of Portsmouth, and Dr. Iman Mohagheghian, from the University of Surrey, discuss an often-overlooked consideration for flooring decision-makers – that of shock-absorbency, and the impact of installing shock- absorbent flooring on patient fall- related injuries and staff safety.
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