IHEEM 2021 AGM
over 100 courses available online, and intend creating more, but in 2022 what we need to do is really work hard at making sure that every NHS Trust and private sector company working in the healthcare sector understands that that training is there and accessible via our website, and that the website should be their first port of call. We hope you’ll all support us on that journey.”
The Faraday Challenge Pete Sellars said both he and Paul Fenton had been delighted that IHEEM had got involved with the Faraday Challenge – ‘a tremendous programme’. He explained: “We have 166 schools already engaged, and the IET (the Institution of Engineering and Technology) tells us this is its most successful Faraday Challenge to date.” The Institute was keen to look at how it could extend its involvement beyond the current year. He said: “But, more importantly, we are now delivering the Faraday Challenge, so there is this opportunity for everybody, and I’d encourage you all to contact head office if you can be part of helping to deliver the Challenge at your local school. It’s a great opportunity to engage with youngsters, and to highlight engineering, healthcare, and IHEEM.” The Institute would be doing a lot of work around putting the logistics in place to manage that programme going forward.
Chartered status Turning to discuss Chartered status with the Engineering Council, Pete Sellars explained that alongside the ‘standard route – the qualifications, your experience, your knowledge,’ and ‘the non-standard route’, IHEEM was delighted to have found the third, ‘experiential route’ to Chartered
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CEO, Pete Sellars: “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”
engineering status. He explained: “We want to develop this as an Institute, but we will need both academic and our members’ support. I’m delighted that Council has supported the plans to develop that programme, starting from next spring (2022), with the view that this will be something which will be very valuable to our senior members, who possess all the knowledge and experience, but haven’t been able to get that academic qualification. For them this is a new route. It fits into everything we’ve been saying for the last few years about supporting our members to develop and grow.”
Key events planned On the events front, Pete Sellars explained that IHEEM was starting to pull together a ‘key events’ programme, with a plan – the pandemic allowing – to start moving back to face-to-face events in 2022. However, if this did not prove possible, IHEEM would potentially look at reverting to hybrid events – especially in the light of the successful hybrid conference and exhibition in October 2021. He said: “We are looking forward to delivering an events programme, starting in Dublin in May, and moving on to Manchester in October.” On another topic, the IHEEM CEO
explained that the Institute was currently putting together its business priorities for 2022, which it was hoped would be ready to publish at the end of March. He added:
“I would also signpost you to the invitation which will be going on our website tonight to IHEEM’s Annual Report for 2021 – a really fantastic document. Thank you to everybody at IHEEM’s head office, Council, and our members, who have enabled us to deliver such a fantastic year. It’s been pretty difficult, but the Annual Report is a very easy read about all the work we’ve done, and what we have achieved.”
Annual accounts The next agenda item was item four – ‘to receive and consider the Annual Report and the audited Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2020’. Paul Fenton explained that all IHEEM members and attendees at the 2021 AGM should have received a copy of the Financial Statements, which were also published in the October 2021 HEJ, and were available online. He asked whether there were any questions, and – there being none – announced that James Chadwick had proposed the approval of the audited accounts and Financial Statements, with Nigel Keery seconding them. Voting via their computer screen, the AGM’s attendees approved them.
Nominations to Council Agenda item five was to approve the elections to Council. Pete Sellars set out the nominations received for the seats due to be retired at the AGM as follows:
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