COMMENT IHEEM Ministerial support clear in insightful address


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A recent ‘NHSE/NHSI Estates & Facilities Forum’ webinar held in conjunction with IHEEM saw a number of high-level speakers address attendees, among them Director and Head of Profession for Estates & Facilities at NHSE/NHSI, Simon Corben (pages 29-32) – discussing the NHSE/NHSI ‘eight core objectives’ for 2021, NHSE/NHSI Director of Operational Finance and Performance, Sandra Easton – with a fascinating insight into the current state of NHS finances in England, NHS Chief People Officer, Prerana Issar, discussing the pandemic’s impact on NHS staff wellbeing, and Health Minister, Edward Argar, with a ‘Health Infrastructure Plan Refresh’. Edward Argar’s challenging Ministerial brief indeed includes overall oversight of NHS capital, land, and estates, ‘finance, efficiency and commercial’, ‘transformation’, COVID-19 resilience, and sponsorship of NHSE/NHSI. During a wide-ranging address – see pages 37-40 – he noted that while the past year’s pressures had seen him decline many speaking invitations, when Simon Corben invited him to speak at this ‘Forum’, he had had no hesitation in accepting, adding: “That is because of just how central and vital the work of the professions and people represented here today have been to our pandemic response, and how important your work is to our NHS every day.” Reassuringly,


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Faster completion, enhanced quality control, and a ‘future-proof design’


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Clients of Catfoss are – the company says – ‘acutely aware of the benefits available through delivery of estates strategies using offsite-manufactured modular construction’: n Significant programme savings: delivering schemes up to 50% faster than via traditional build delivery.


n Enhanced quality control: factory-manufactured modular buildings undergo stringent controls to ensure that the highest quality is delivered.


n Flexible, future-proof design: design characteristics of the modular build system allow for easy expansion of the building in the future, with minimal disruption.


n Reduced traffic movements for delivery: individual modular building bays containing site materials are delivered pre-constructed in single deliveries, ‘dramatically reducing the carbon footprint of projects’.


n COVID-19-resilient: Concurrent programme(s) for on-site enabling/foundation works, and offsite building production in the company’s manufacturing facility, reduce the volume of site staff required at any one time, aiding with social


distancing and management of works during even the most stringent COVID-19 restrictions.


n Reduced programme risk: Adverse weather can cause delays for traditional build projects during winter months; offsite module construction in a factory environment averts any delays, allowing a weathertight building to be delivered, and enabling internal works to continue unhindered even in the severest weather. As detailed in the Health Sector


News section of this edition, Catfoss is delighted to be assisting Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust realise these benefits, delivering a new Paediatric A&E extension, new front entrance/retail building, and new two- storey ICU in 2021, ‘demonstrating how modern methods of construction can be integrated with existing infrastructure to rapidly deliver fully compliant permanent accommodation’. Catfoss


Beck View Road, Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0JT T: 01964 542225


E: contact@catfoss.co.uk www.catfoss.co.uk


he emphasised that the Department of Health & Social Care, and the wider Government, were committed to ensuring that the NHS estate continues to benefit from sufficient funding and focus to enable clinicians to deliver high quality, efficient care over the next decade and beyond. Conscious that healthcare EFM professionals rarely receive the deserved recognition, the Minister said one of his ongoing priorities was to work with FM professionals, and with Simon Corben and his team, ‘to do what we can to make sure that role isn’t quite so hidden’. This edition of HEJ is, of course, one of the four that we ‘brand’ an IFHE issue annually, and includes a report on a highly successful recent 26th IFHE Congress (pages 19-21), topically themed ‘Global climate action in pandemic times’, and held online, and a highly topical article from Australia, in which expatriate-Brit, microbiologist, and senior consultant at built environment consultancy, QED Environmental Services, Sarah Bailey, discusses the origins, ‘basics’, and ‘science behind’, the coronavirus, and the key steps that can be taken, both within buildings, and in the wider community, to mitigate its spread.


Jonathan Baillie I Editor jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


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