NHSE/NHSI ESTATES FORUM
EFM community can ‘build on goodwill’ looking ahead
Minister of State for Health, Edward Argar, Director and Head of Profession, NHS Estates and Facilities, at NHSE/NHSI, Simon Corben, NHS Chief People Officer, Prerana Issar, and NHSE/NHSI Director of Operational Finance and Performance, Sandra Easton, were among the speakers at an NHS England and NHS Improvement ‘Estates Forum’ webinar held in conjunction with IHEEM on 16 March. HEJ, editor, Jonathan Baillie, here reports on a scene-setting presentation from Simon Corben.
The fully CPD-accredited whole-day online event on 16 March began with a brief introduction from IHEEM CEO, Pete Sellars. He explained that among the major topics covered would be ‘some of the lessons learned through COVID’, ‘Estates and Facilities finance and workforce’, and ‘the NHS drive towards Net Zero Carbon’, while the audience would also get the opportunity to hear direct from Minister of State for Health, Edward Argar, giving his personal standpoint on the recent challenges faced by the EFM workforce, and looking ahead to both the challenges and opportunities for such personnel in the future. Pete Sellars encouraged those listening/viewing to ‘take advantage of the interactivity of the sessions’, by putting their questions to the various speakers using the facilities within the webinar software. He then introduced the day’s first speaker, Simon Corben, who he said would be focusing on the ‘eight national critical areas of priority’ that had been identified to support the NHS as it emerged from COVID.
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Thanks to the entire EFM community Before beginning his presentation ‘proper’, however, Simon Corben thanked NHSE/NHSI colleague, Operational Engagement and Communications Lead, Tom McHugh, and the ‘wider team’ who had organised the webinar, which had taken a lot of planning, as well as those who had given up their time to speak. He also thanked all working in the NHS healthcare EFM community for their efforts over ‘an extraordinary year’. Not only had these personnel ‘kept the show on the road’, but they had also increased the NHS’s critical care capacity ‘throughout the pandemic’s first wave’, and underpinned the vaccine roll-out – ‘a truly impressive contribution’. He said:
“For us as an estates and facilities community, it has been a tremendous showcase for the 100,000 staff we have within the NHS, all of whom have delivered in a crisis situation. I simply cannot thank you and your teams enough for the effort you have made.”
Eight ‘core objectives’
Moving to the crux of his address, Simon Corben said he would be discussing the eight core objectives that NHSE and NHSI have for 2021, running through them, and explaining where the Estates & Facilities function he leads complements these objectives, and plays a significant role in their delivery. He said: “The first is the delivery of services during the pandemic.
Not only had these personnel [the EFM community] ‘kept the show on the road’, but they had also increased the NHS’s critical care capacity ‘throughout the pandemic’s first wave’, and underpinned the vaccine roll-out – ‘a truly impressive contribution’
Simon Corben and IHEEM’s Pete Sellars fielded a large number of questions from a well-informed and lively audience. May 2021 Health Estate Journal 29
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