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the software.” He encouraged attendees unfamiliar with the software to visit the Quiqsolutions exhibition stand. Pete Sellars noted that Alison Ryan had earlier alluded to the launch of two new Technical Platforms. While Alison would be chairing the new Mechanical Platform, later in the day, the Institute would formally launch its medical engineering platform, named the IHEEM Medical Devices Platform. This, he explained, was the result of work that had been ongoing ‘for a year or more’, with IHEEM having secured some ‘leading lights’ in medical engineering both from within its own membership, and from the private sector, to be on the Platform. The IHEEM CEO said: “What’s more important is that they’re all coming together, seeing the need for us to develop a medical engineering platform, and I think it’s another fantastic part of our user journey.”
Engineering Council review Pete Sellars explained that IHEEM was due its Engineering Council Review in November, which he expected would go smoothly. He said: “It’s an important review – in terms of our professional status to be able to support and endorse recommendations to the Engineering Council for our people to be professionally qualified.” With the current Five-Year Plan coming to an end in 2024, IHEEM was now looking at a new Five- Year Plan, which Council Members would know he had ‘christened’ ‘Stick or Twist’. He explained why: “Hopefully you’ll understand why I’m calling it this – because IHEEM has progressed quite rapidly, and we have to take stock about where we want to be.” It was, he felt, a great opportunity for the Institute to attract more members, but also for it to influence any new policy at government and national and levels.
The IHEEM CEO noted that those who had attended the morning’s first conference keynote session would have heard that – in partnership with EngineeringUK – the Institute would be launching a national award for Innovation in Wellbeing and Healthcare Engineering as part of the 2025 The Big Bang (STEM) programme, which is run by EngineeringUK. Pete Sellars said: “There’s around 25,000 children who attend their event over three days,
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A proud moment for the incoming President, pictured after the formal proceedings closed with a number of his team, who had joined him from Belfast at last year’s Healthcare Estates event.
and we have an opportunity to influence the youngsters coming into engineering, but also healthcare. We are setting the 2025 exam question, and think this involvement a fantastic opportunity.” This closed Pete Sellars’ CEO’s update.
Annual Report and Financial Statements
Agenda Item four was to receive and consider the Annual Report to the Board and the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 – which had been published in the September 2024 HEJ, and were available online. With no associated questions, the Annual Report and Financial Statements were unanimously approved. Agenda item five was to appoint Morris Crocker as IHEEM’s auditors, and to authorise Council to fix their remuneration for the following year. The motion was carried.
Agenda item six was to approve the elections to Council. Pete Sellars explained that nominations for the following seats, that were due to retire from Council at the AGM, had been received:
Alan Spraggon of the North East Branch, James Chadwick of the East Midlands Branch, Martyn Jeffery of the South West Branch, and Richard Harris of the Southern Branch, had all agreed to continue for a further term, and were thus duly elected, while Alison Ryan had agreed to stay on Council for a further year, to enable a smooth handover to incoming President, Nigel Keery. Meanwhile, Eddie McLaughlan, who had represented IHEEM’s Council for two terms, would be stepping down from the Scottish Branch; the Branch’s members had already nominated his replacement – Jim Leiper, while the Council seat for the Northern Ireland Branch would remain vacant until IHEEM had a new member, who would need to be elected, and would then replace Nigel Keery. Currently, Pete Sellars
explained, East Anglia was the only IHEEM Branch not properly ‘up and running’ – something that IHEEM would be looking at. Pete Sellars then read out the list of Council members for the next 12 months as follows:
President: Nigel Keery; Northern Ireland: seat vacant until a nomination from Council; Scotland: Jim Leiper; Wales: Peter Davies; North East: Alan Spraggon; North West: Alistair Cameron; Yorkshire: Simon Adamson; East Midlands: James Chadwick; West Midlands: Claire Hennessy; East Anglia: vacant; London: Paul Rodgers; South: Richard Harris; South West: Martyn Jeffery; the Republic of Ireland: Bill O’Reilly, and Hong Kong: Dr PL Yuen. Alison Ryan thanked all those who had agreed to serve a second term, and expressed the Institute’s gratitude to Eddie McLaughlan for his term on Council, for chairing the Manufacturing and Finance Committee, and for serving as the overall Technical Platform Chair. She explained that IHEEM had a gift for him as a token of its appreciation, which he would receive at the evening’s 2024 Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards Dinner.
Outgoing IHEEM President, Alison Ryan, hands over the President’s Medal to her successor in the role, Nigel Keery OBE, at IHEEM’s 2024 AGM in Manchester in October.
New President’s thoughts Here, as Agenda item seven, Alison Ryan handed over the chain of office to her successor as President, Nigel Keery, who said he wished to say a few words. He told the AGM: “Taking up the Presidency is a great honour for me. There is fantastic Council representation coming in for the next year; the Council is really important. I know most of the people on Council well, and am looking forward to chairing it.” He continued: “Alison has left me with a great legacy in terms of what she has done, and I hope to continue that. I’m a real people believer. I believe in empowering people, and in our Institute. I’ve been part of IHEEM for over 30 years, and on Council for many of those. I believe strongly in what we do, and in our place in healthcare. What I want to see continuing
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