IHEEM 2021 AGM
COVID-19 in our built environments and in transport ahead of winter 2021/22’. Phase two would, he explained, seek greater clarity and guidance for future building and infrastructure design, planning, and management; the Institute was pleased to be ‘part of the continuum’ on this work.
Major progress on the training front IHEEM had also moved forward ‘in leaps and bounds’ with its training providers to provide specialist course content during 2021, developing a number of Knowledge Partnerships which provide members with access to ‘high quality development opportunities’. Paul Fenton said: “Many of our members have chosen courses from the over 100 on offer via the IHEEM website. We have worked alongside several professional bodies and organisations to produce best practice guidance and online toolkits to support topics that impact at every level of our sector, including Net Zero carbon and healthcare planning.” IHEEM had also contributed to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch inquiry into oxygen issues during the pandemic, with a keynote presentation on the topic given at the 2021 online Healthcare Estates conference.
Opportunity for a ‘personal choice’ Moving to 2022, Paul Fenton said the desire was to hold a face-to-face conference and exhibition, but with a digital element included. While the planning for the hybrid Healthcare Estates 2021 event had been extremely challenging, he was proud that IHEEM had had ‘the resolve and commitment, along with the drive and determination, to develop a bold and innovative solution which engaged with over 2,500 people in the online platform, or directly, at Manchester Central’. IHEEM had secured the support of over 190 high quality speakers and chairs to deliver the five-day online conference. Without the ‘digital functionality’, Paul Fenton said it would have been ‘almost impossible to maintain the status of the flagship event once again this year’. The 2022 IHEEM conference and
exhibition was now, the Institute’s President said, in planning. The options
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Pete Sellars and Paul Fenton had been delighted that IHEEM had got involved with the Faraday Challenge, with 166 schools already engaged, and the IET confirming the latest Challenge as its most successful to date.
would be discussed with members and the Executive Council over the next few months, but - all things being equal - IHEEM was looking forward to being able to get delegates back to a face-to-face event this October in Manchester, while still offering some digital elements, so they have a choice of which sessions, and how they wish to attend.
Influence over ‘people issues’ Changing subject, Paul Fenton explained that IHEEM was now a member of the NHS Chief People Officer’s Estates and Facilities roundtable, allowing it to directly advise on staffing and ‘people-related’ issues at a national level. He said: “In May we were honoured that Prerana Issar, Chief People Officer for NHS England and NHS Improvement, introduced our joint Workforce Strategy document, developed with HEFMA. We also launched our National Healthcare Engineering Apprentice Programme, and IHEEM’s partnership with the Faraday Challenge for 2021/22.” Reflecting on all that the Institute had
achieved in 2021, Paul Fenton thanked Chief Executive, Pete Sellars, and all of the Head Office team, who he said had continued to work ‘so hard, and with such enthusiasm’, to deliver the Institute’s business, and to put IHEEM ‘at the forefront of our estates and facilities profession’. He added: “I am also so
grateful to all our volunteers, who give their time each year to support the Institute, our Executive Council, and to you – our members, affiliates, and partners. So,” he concluded, “thank you – a huge achievement this year in everything that IHEEM has managed, despite the threat from COVID. I’m incredibly proud, and as we move into 2022 – and Pete will cover what’s on the agenda for IHEEM this year – we can look forward to such an exciting next 12 months as I enter my second year as your President.” Here Paul Fenton handed over to Pete Sellars ‘to deliver a report on the Institute’s future’.
Priorities for 2022 Pete Sellars explained that his aim would be to give ‘a quick overview’ of IHEEM’s priorities in 2022; one of the key elements of focus would be IHEEM ‘as a brand’. He said: “While I don’t always like using that word, I think we have indeed become a trusted brand – certainly across government and other professional bodies. We have also seen both company and personal membership grow by about 7 per cent in 2021.” The IHEEM CEO said that as the Institute
focused on ‘improving the brand’, he was really conscious that it had made strong efforts to set about providing a number of training programmes aimed at supporting members – ‘ranging from tradesmen to Estates directors’. He said: “We now have
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