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COMMENT IHEEM President sets out his goals and priorities


JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT


Editor: Jonathan Baillie jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


Technical Editor: Mike Arrowsmith


BSc(Hons), CEng, FIMechE, FIHEEM


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This issue of HEJ includes an interview with IHEEM’s new President, Paul Fenton (pages 13- 18), who, in his ‘day job’, is Director of Estates and Facilities at East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), and whose varied and interesting career began with an apprenticeship with the then regional electricity supplier and contractor, Eastern Electricity, in the early 1980s. He reflects on some of the key challenges and achievements – he received an MBE in the 2021 New Year Honour’s list for services to the NHS, but says that being chosen to receive it is as much about the dedication, hard work, and commitment, of the entire healthcare estates profession over the past 10-11 months, as it is a mark of his own efforts. Among his key priorities as President, he explains, will be further strengthening IHEEM’s existing excellent working partnership with HEFMA, and facilitating the two organisations’ close working with the National NHSE/NHSI Estates and Facilities team – both to support the estates community in managing the continuing response to COVID-19, and to ensure that key messages ‘from the centre’ are effectively disseminated.


Next month (on 16 March – see page 9) – very much in this vein – and as part of its Digital Programme 2021, IHEEM, in collaboration with the national NHS Estates team, will present the


COVER STORY


Clamp-on measuring systems’ key oxygen management role


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Neither the Institute nor the Publisher is able to take any responsibility for views expressed by contributors. Editorial views are not necessarily shared by the Institute. Readers are expressly advised that while the contents of this publication are believed to be accurate, correct and complete, no reliance should be placed upon its contents as being applicable to any particular circumstances. Any advice, opinion or information contained is published only on the footing that The Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management, its servants or agents and all contributors to this publication shall be under no liability whatsoever in respect of its contents.


Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, NHS hospitals have experienced significant concerns around oxygen flow limitations to increased bed capacity in critical ICU wards using high demand devices such as ventilators. The unprecedented O2


instantaneous usage in each hospital ward, along with total site usage, providing effective management of critical O2


within demand


has led to a serious concern that existing oxygen systems are vulnerable to overloading due to the increased flow rate. Due to these concerns, and the limitations of the existing VIE (Vacuum Insulated Evaporator) systems in indicating real-time demand, NHS Trusts have seen the importance of installing their own real-time O2


delivery pipework without any critical system outages. O2


the known limits of the oxygen system. Since March last year, FLEXIM has supplied more than 100 flowmeters to hospitals across the UK and Ireland. Along with medical gas metering, FLEXIM also provides clamp-on energy metering of heated or chilled water flows, delivered in kW usage, along with clamp-on steam metering


flow demand measuring systems. Thankfully, explains FLEXIM Instruments UK, a solution is easily retrofittable to existing copper O2


flowmeters from FLEXIM


are simply clamped onto existing copper pipework, and introduce no new leak paths or pipe tapping points which could harbour health-threatening microorganisms. Once integrated into local MGPS or BMS systems, the O2


flow data from the FLEXIM meters provides


solutions for boiler and CHP optimisation and as part of your ESOS audit campaign. Along with portable check metering, FLEXIM’s solutions are easily fitted during plant operations without any need for supply outages. FLEXIM Instruments UK Theatre Court London Road Northwich


Cheshire CW9 5HB T: +44 (0)1606 781 420 E: sales@flexim.co.uk www.flexim.co.uk


‘NHS England & NHS Improvement Estates Forum’ webinar forum, comprising a number of live sessions and presentations, with speakers including Simon Corben, Director and Head of Profession, NHSE/NHSI, and other senior representatives from NHSE/NHSI. It is also hoped that a Minister from the Department of Health & Social Care may be able to join. As he explained to me during an interesting hour-long discussion, Paul Fenton is keen, during his two-year Presidency, to further take forward the Institute’s ‘Five Key Themes’, but with a particular focus on taking healthcare engineering into schools through the STEM agenda, working to ensure IHEEM is seen as a source of knowledge and expertise in the planning and design of healthcare premises, including via input into to the further development of technical guidance and standardisation, and affording increased attention to the estates and facilities management side of the profession – the ‘EM’ in IHEEM. It is both an interesting and a challenging time to become President, but it is clear he relishes his work, places much value in the profession and those who work in it, and is honoured to be taking up the role.


Jonathan Baillie I Editor jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


February 2021 Health Estate Journal 5


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