TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IHEEM Authorising Engineers
AE(D) REGISTRATION BOARD REPORT
Graham Stanton IHEEM AE(D) Registration Board Chair
Board to inform our members of the work being carried out. We held a meeting during 2023, plus a couple of sub-meetings on ‘Teams’ for direct discussions. Meetings are not held as often as we would like, due to availability of members and facilities. However, the Board has been very proactive, and – working very closely with DTP – many items cross the tables of both, depending on where the issues are raised in the first place. Currently, 31 individuals are registered
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with the Board and on the AE(D) register, although this can vary depending on retirements and new members. The best way to find out more is to log on to the IHEEM website to review all the AEs in the various disciplines. In recent months we have interviewed two new engineers for registration, who had passed the two-year framework with Eastwood Park (EWP), and
his is a basic report covering the latest activity of the AE(D) Registration
then came before the Registration Board for an in-depth interview. Both were assessed as excellent new entrants, and we sincerely wish them well in their future development and careers. Hopefully we will have three more
entrants onto the framework scheme soon, who will be attending EWP for their induction days for the scheme – making a total of nine at various stages withing the framework. Since we entered the very detailed framework scheme with EWP, seven new AE(D)s have successfully passed through the scheme and entered onto the IHEEM register. All are proving to be good people, as well as understanding the role. The Platform is a very good mixture of
mechanical and electrical engineers, chemists, pharmacists, and microbiologists, and these roles are reflected in the make-up of the Registration Board itself, which also includes a few invited members from other institutes, and of course representatives of the Devolved Administrations. This enables me as Chairman to develop all-encompassing policies, and address the educational needs of our prospective AE(D)s, and the re-
The Platform is a good mixture of mechanical and electrical engineers, chemists, pharmacists, and microbiologists, and these roles are reflected in the make-up of the Registration Board itself
registration processes for the United Kingdom. It also allows me as the Chair to ensure that all aspects of the decontamination processes and systems are covered in our assessments of registered AE(D)s to the candidates framework on the EWP scheme. The processes will cover medical devices in hospital operating theatres, community healthcare, dental, and pharmaceutical settings, as well as the requirements in the complicated world of endoscopy – especially as regards flexible endoscopes. We have AE(D)s on the Board, together
with representatives of other professions – including the chair of the Decontamination Technical Platform. As a result, our work has a heavy cross-over between the two groups, with each having established smaller working teams to develop papers and research, some of which can be included within guidance notes, in our case for the use of AE(D)s. This includes the Phaco handpiece paper about to be published on the IHEEM website, which will add further guidance on the cleaning and handling of such much-used devices. One area that has constantly been
An infographic showing all those involved in delivering safe decontamination. 16 Health Estate Journal January 2024
brought to our attention at the Board is the competence levels of staff or contractors working on highly complicated and complex equipment for the cleaning and sterilisation of medical devices. This year we have presented on this at a few conferences, including the Welsh IHEEM Regional
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