IHEEM DIGITAL WEEK KEYNOTE
Delivered under ProCure22 by IHP and VINCI Construction UK, the Manchester Nightingale Hospital North West in Manchester was one of a number of emergency hospitals built within conference/exhibition centres.
Another attendee asked whether additional dedicated support would be made available to Trusts with impending PFI hand-backs. Simon Corben said there were a number of individuals within the DHSC looking at how this could be addressed. Meanwhile, both NHSE and NHSI were ‘bolstering up’ their Commercial teams.
I asked whether he thought the successful creation of the Nightingale hospitals might encourage more people to join the healthcare engineering and estate management profession, and the associated construction and supply chains. He responded: “We have an ever- improving position in terms of the growing prominence of the EFM workforce and profession, but I would agree that the Nightingales have been a great showcase for us. Equally however, all the work behind the scenes – such as the way the sector has addressed the complexity of the oxygen works – has been amazing. We are now starting to see more capital coming through – with the
announcement of the 48 new hospitals coming forward. They are a great showcase for us to start recruiting into. Equally, the new Workforce Strategy needs to start bringing both the capital, and the EFM profession’s presence, into the spotlight.”
Net Zero commitments
A Carbon & Energy Fund staff member asked whether Simon Corben’s team had been part of the 2050 Net Zero Expert Panel. While it had not, he said Fiona Daly and her team had provided ‘a lot of input’ to the new Net Zero Strategy. An Estates and Facilities director asked whether the £3.7 bn in funding allocated for the 40 initial hospital schemes was the totality, or if there would be more monies to come. Simon Corben said ‘the messaging had been clear’ – this was £3.7 bn for this Spending Review, and that although the NHSE/NHSI team ‘would have liked a lot more, and a lot more ambition’, it was the commitment behind the announcement – with the
schemes formally named – that was key. His personal preference, he explained, would be for a ‘pipeline’ of schemes that had gone through planning and consultation so that when new administrations came forward, the NHS was able to deliver capital schemes faster, rather than having to go through the full approvals process, and then trying to deliver them within the term of an administration.
IHEEM’s Marketing & Events manager, Melissa Glass, asked what advice Simon Corben had for ‘anyone going into Wave 2’, in terms of ‘de-stressing, staying resilient, and keeping well’. He said: “I would say ‘understand the fatigue’ of many of the professionals working so committedly in the sector over the past six months. It’s really important that people take time out, and it’s only by doing this that you realise just how fatigued you are. People must have a firm eye on their health and wellbeing. Ultimately, allow yourself time to recover and re-charge your batteries.”
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