HEALTHCARE ESTATES 2021 KEYNOTES


question to you in your role now as the leader across all sectors. What opportunities do you feel there are for Section 106 to be played out better into the health arena?”


Many opportunities untapped


David Flory said: “I think it’s a big opportunity, Peter. I think we’ve always underestimated and not used the potential of some of the things that are available. There are lots of things we can do that we haven’t done well enough. I talked before about inequalities in health. In many parts of the north of England, certainly in much of Lancashire and South Cumbria, there are societal challenges around housing


or the opportunity. I think that your members, your professional leadership, your capability, the experience, the corporate memory, the understanding of what works and what doesn’t, and the creative ‘adapting for change’ mentality that I have come across over all my working life with Estates, Facilities, and Engineering colleagues, are all essential to what we have to do going forward. I am certainly looking across this ICS to make sure that we can attract and build in, at the most senior level, all the experience and expertise we can get.”


At the end of the two first morning keynotes, Emma-Jane Houghton, Commercial director on England’s New Hospital Programme, gave some closing remarks.


stock, around employment, and around people being able to live healthily. I think that there are chances – such as around Section 106, and other opportunities – to address, as a system, some of these wider determinants of health, and that this will ultimately be core now to our agenda. Ultimately, however, the success and the impact of the decisions we make now on the policies we set, and the investments we prioritise will be judged in a fundamental way in terms of what have we done to address some of these broader determinants of health, and ultimately narrow the inequalities that we face today.”


Pete Sellars’ closing question to David Flory was, as the IHEEM CEO put it, seeking ‘a message to our industry, our Estates and Facilities people, and our


supply chain, on how they can help and support what you’re trying to achieve, and what would we need to do differently to help you succeed?’”


Underpinned by inter-professional and inter-sector working


David Flory replied: “Well, I think a proper high-performing, well-functioning integrated care system needs to be underpinned by very mature systems of inter-professional and inter-sector working. However, the balance of influence works based on who is in the room at the time. As I said before, there’s no shortcut to technical professional expertise. In the economic environment we operate in we’re under huge pressure to get these things right first time. We can’t afford to get it wrong and to waste either money


With this, Pete Sellars thanked both the previous keynote speaker, Emma-Jane Houghton, and David Flory,


for what he dubbed ‘two wonderful, very open and honest presentations’. As the earlier speaker joined Pete Sellars and David Flory on screen at the close of the double keynote session, the IHEEM CEO asked her if she would like to add any inal comments. She said: “Thank you, Peter. I’d just like to reiterate my thanks for the opportunity to share our ‘commercial approach’ for the New Hospital Programme and our team’s ambition with your members, and please do come and engage with us on our stand in Manchester during Healthcare Estates 2021 and through our webinars.” This brought to an end a stimulating first hour of the 2021 IHEEM annual conference, and set the scene for the rest of the presentations on a day themed ‘Hospitals of the Future’.


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