HEALTHCARE ESTATES IHEEM AWARDS 2024
Gala dinner a chance to celebrate success
This year’s Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards, presented at a ‘sellout’ gala dinner on 8 October at Manchester’s Kimpton Clocktower Hotel, saw 650 guests witness the presentation of 13 awards, including one celebrating Lifetime Achievement. After a three-course dinner, footballing legend, Kevin Keegan, entertained guests with some amusing and interesting recollections from an incredible career. The genial former striker also chatted to attendees – many of whom remembered seeing him play – throughout an enjoyable and lively evening celebrating achievement, innovation, and commitment. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
Always a great opportunity to catch up with news, industry developments, and friends from across the sector, the 2024 Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards dinner began with pre-dinner drinks in the Whitworth Room at Manchester’s distinctive and stylish Kimpton Clocktower Hotel. While there, guests had the opportunity to meet and reminisce with Kevin Keegan OBE, one of the most recognisable faces in British football. His illustrious playing career included spells at Liverpool, Hamburg, Southampton, and Newcastle, and he captained England for six years until his international retirement after the 1982 World Cup. Following the drinks reception, the evening’s host, Andy
Powell, called guests to take their seats for the dinner. IHEEM’s new President, Nigel Keery (see also pages 24-28) – who had officially taken over the role from Alison Ryan at the IHEEM 2024 AGM earlier in the day, gave a short welcome address. He told those assembled that alongside being ‘a wonderful opportunity to catch up with familiar faces and make some new connections’, the evening was ‘about celebrating the amazing talent and innovation we have within the healthcare engineering and estates management sector’. He explained: “The 13 categories we will present Awards in this evening reflect the breadth and depth of this talent, reminding us – if a reminder was needed – of the significance and value of the work we all undertake daily.” He went on to thank all the event, award category, and VIP table sponsors, and expressed a ‘special thank you’ to the awards judging panel – all members of the IHEEM Conference & Exhibition Committee – who he said had ‘diligently reviewed and assessed a huge record number of entries’ this year. Addressing all, he added: “A warm thank you for your continued support of Healthcare Estates, and of the Institute. I wish everyone in attendance a wonderful evening.” In his brief speech, Nigel Keery also highlighted the work of this year’s IHEEM Awards Dinner supporting charity, Prostate Cancer UK, selected by Immediate-Past President, Alison Ryan, encouraged guests to donate to it either by scanning a QR code on their table, or by inserting money into collection envelopes on their table.
One in eight men ‘Striving for a world where no man dies from prostate cancer’, Prostate Cancer UK says 1 in 8 men will get this form of cancer during their lifetime, and explains that it ‘works to give every man the power to navigate it – whether that’s helping you to understand your risk, making the right choice about treatment, or getting the expertise you need to feel informed and in control’. The charity says
it has invested over £75 m into ‘the best researchers in the world, to unravel the complexity of prostate cancer, so we can give men precise and personalised care with the right treatments, at the right time, for the best chance of living the full life they want’.
Personal experience of prostate cancer Underlining the work the charity does, and the importance of men having the PSA (Prostate specific antigen) blood test that all aged over 50 can request via their GP – which can help diagnose prostate problems including prostate cancer – was Tony Collier, a passionate ambassador for Prostate Cancer UK who has first-hand experience of the disease. Before dinner, he recounted his own harrowing story, which made abundantly clear to all the importance of early detection. Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017, he had had no symptoms, but by that stage the cancer had extensively spread, including to his bones. As a result, he had to undergo extensive and extremely gruelling treatment. Given the extent to which the cancer had metastasised, he was originally told he might only live for 1-2 years, but here he was eight years later, looking to do his bit to help educate and inform those at risk of getting prostate cancer about the disease. Discovering he had cancer had come as a complete shock, but he stressed that had he known about the availability of the PSA test, his cancer might have been detected far earlier, and he might thus have avoided some of the extremely unpleasant subsequent treatment he needed to save his life. His message to all those entitled to have the free test was to have one; as with many cancers, early diagnosis is key to clinical outcome, and indeed quality of life, for those going on to live with the disease.
The annual Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards Dinner is always a popular event, and this year saw 650 guests get together to recognise achievement, innovation, and commitment.
Tony Collier, an ambassador for Prostate Cancer UK, recounted his own experience of the disease in a heartfelt speech.
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