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5 Comment: Pilot scheme to boost AP and CP skills 5 Cover story: Complementary design for a ‘unified hygienic finish’ 7 Institute News: Title and key themes announced for Healthcare Estates 2024 12 Training and Development section 19 Health Sector News: Imperial seeking views on hospital rebuilding 26 IFHE News: Information-sharing on Mexico City agenda
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30 How to successfully manage Legionella risk Les Szabo, NSW (New South Wales) State manager at Australian water treatment specialist, HydroChem, discusses work to implement an effective Legionella risk management and prevention strategy for the hot water system at a Sydney hospital.
35 Renewable energy microgrid for US paediatric hospital
Walt Vernon, CEO at global engineering design and consulting firm, Mazzetti, and 2nd Vice-President of the IFHE, reports on work at Valley Children’s Hospital in Central California to make it the US’s first Net Zero paediatric hospital campus.
53 West Yorkshire’s new highly automated pathology centre A new pathology laboratory building at Leeds’s St James’s University Hospital that will serve patients across West Yorkshire was officially opened in September 2023. The highly automated facility will serve hospitals across the region, avoiding considerable duplication, and
significantly speeding diagnosis and
treatment for many thousands of patients annually.
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39 Ensuring competence across key engineering roles Following IHEEM’s work to strengthen and promote the role and importance of professional development and independent AEs across its specialist engineering platforms, members highlighted the urgent need to actively support the development of AP and CPs. An IHEEM-registered AE(D) leading a pilot in Wales to do just this discusses engineering governance in healthcare facilities, and ongoing work to ensure that engineers at all levels are competent.
45 Study highlights some worrying knowledge gaps Three academics report on research, sponsored by the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to identify how knowledge priorities vary among NHS EFM staff across organisational levels.
61 Ensuring critical power needs are properly met Healthcare providers have a duty of care to patients. Along with the provision of good clinical care, this includes the requirement that healthcare EFM and healthcare engineering personnel ensure appropriate governance arrangements for critical power back-up.
67 Greater insight on ‘wasted energy’ could be the key Neil Campbell, Chief Sales officer at eEnergy, discusses how healthcare estates teams can lower energy waste in their buildings, and some of the other – in many cases relatively straightforward and inexpensive – steps they can take to reduce the carbon footprint of their estate.
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