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Healthcare Estates 2026: Bridging the Gap Across the Estate
Healthcare Estates returns to Manchester Central on 13-14 October 2026, bringing together the UK’s healthcare estates and facilities community for two days of insight, collaboration, and practical learning.
Recognised as the sector’s leading annual event, Healthcare Estates provides a unique platform for NHS leaders, estates and facilities professionals, and industry partners to come together at a time of significant transformation across the healthcare estate.
A sector at a critical juncture The NHS estate is undergoing profound change, with significant investment in reshaping parts of the estate with modern, digitally enabled facilities. At the same time, many organisations continue to operate within challenging infrastructure – with obstacles such as managing backlog maintenance and operational pressures – while staying safe and compliant.
This gap has far-reaching implications: for patient experience and safety, for sustainability and digital transformation, and for the long-term resilience and performance of the UK’s healthcare system.
Mind the Gap: are we heading for a two-tier estate?
IHEEM is committed to bringing this conversation to the forefront, and the Healthcare Estates central theme Mind the Gap: are we heading for a two-tier estate?
addresses this challenge directly. Through Healthcare Estates there is a platform for open, honest discussion, drawing on the collective knowledge and experience of professionals across government, policy, the
Engineering & Estates Essentials
Returning for 2026, Engineering & Estates Essentials Volume 2 brings together first-hand papers and perspectives from contributors to the conference, including professionals working across the NHS estate. The official publication shares insights into the realities of managing both new and ageing infrastructure, alongside the strategies, innovations, and initiatives helping to bridge the gap across healthcare environments.
Engineering & Estates Essentials is exclusively available
to all attendees of Day 2 (14 October) at Healthcare Estates.
10 Health Estate Journal June 2026
NHS, industry, academia, and our membership community. Healthcare Estates will bring together those delivering state- of-the-art new facilities with those managing and improving legacy estates under significant
constraints. By sharing experience, attendees can explore how innovation, best practice, and investment can be applied more consistently across the board, resulting in a more aligned, equitable healthcare estate. Ultimately, the theme challenges us to confront this reality directly: are we moving towards a two-tier estate, and if so, how can we work together to bridge the gap?
Register now by scanning the QR code or head to
www.healthcare-estates.com
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