INSTITUTE NEWS
Updates on a busy and eventful year as first female President takes over at AGM
IHEEM’s 2022 AGM was held at lunchtime on 4 October last year at Manchester Central – the first day of Healthcare Estates 2022 in Manchester, and saw incumbent president, Paul Fenton, talk through some of the highlights of a busy past 12 months for the Institute, and reflect on his two years in the role, before handing over the chain of office to IHEEM’s first ever female President, Alison Ryan. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
Paul Fenton, who chaired IHEEM’s 55th AGM, began proceedings by welcoming attendees at the first such annual meeting to be held in person for three years. He then asked the Institute’s CEO, Pete Sellars, to read out the notice of the meeting. The first agenda item was to approve the Minutes of the 2021 AGM, held ‘virtually’ on 21 December 2021; these were unanimously agreed as a true and accurate record, and signed by Paul Fenton. Agenda item two saw Paul Fenton give his President’s report on the Institute’s performance over the previous 12 months, followed by the CEO’s ‘update on current performance’. During the year, Paul Fenton explained, IHEEM had ‘seen significant progress and success across a number of areas’ – with an increase in membership numbers, and the improvement of governance and assurance around its Technical Platforms. It had also raised its national and international visibility, with a successful conference in Dublin at the city’s Croke Park stadium in mid-May, and a well- attended AE conference at Epsom Downs Racecourse in in July. Paul Fenton said the work undertaken
through the review of the Institute’s Technical Platforms and boards of
Paul Fenton reported that in 2022 IHEEM had joined forces with a number of fellow professional associations to establish the first National Healthcare Estates and Facilities Day – for 15 June each year.
registration, and in the standardisation of approach across both – which led to the Executive Council approving new Terms of Reference – had lifted the concerns expressed by the Engineering Council as
part of IHEEM’s licence agreement with it.
Alison Ryan, IHEEM’s first female President, said her ‘vision’ for IHEEM over the next two years was ‘to inspire the engineering innovators of the future’.
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Championing engineering September 2021 had seen IHEEM sponsor the 2021/2022 IET Faraday Challenge Days, which saw around 960 teams from 165 schools across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland take part. The national competition, aimed at getting more young people into science technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) careers, gave schools the opportunity to have their winning designs made into real tools to help children in hospital. The five school teams who reached the final of the 2021/2022 season attended a special Finals Day at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, with St Aidan’s High School from North Lanarkshire the overall winners. IHEEM, working with its partner, IET (the Institution of Engineering and Technology), has established a relationship with the New Hospital Programme, which will see the NHP team engage through IHEEM and IET with the five finalists in this national competition to transfer their winning ideas into practice, and design tools that will help other children in hospitals of the future.
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