HEALTHCARE ESTATES IHEEM AWARDS 2024
Consultancy of the Year
Diversity & Inclusion Award
two individuals were shortlisted – Paul Fitzpatrick – Director of Estates and Facilities, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who was Highly Commended, and the winner, Paula Melhuish – Deputy Director of Estates, Facilities & Capital Development, at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Since her career at UHS started in 1995 as a
Residences manager, the citation said Paula Melhuish had taken the hospital through ‘numerous developments’ to progress to her current role. She has become the ‘go to person for a massive array of schemes, projects, vision, and organisational memory’, and with her focus on delivery and governance, is ‘hugely respected’ by all who work alongside her.
Estates & Facilities Team of the Year
A second estates and facilities-related award, for Estates & Facilities Team of the Year, goes annually to a team working in the healthcare sector that ‘has demonstrated outstanding achievement, performance, and delivery of estates and facilities services, with examples of how practical or technical obstacles have been overcome, cost savings have been achieved, and innovative ways of working have been introduced’. Sponsored this year by EDGE PS and IHEEM, this
category saw six such teams shortlisted: n Barnsley Facilities Services – Domestics Team. n Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust – Sustainability Team.
n Edenbridge Medical Centre. n Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust – Estates and Facilities Team.
n Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust – Estates Team. n Stockport NHS Foundation Trust – Estates & Capital Team.
Hughie Clark, a Director from EDGE PS, and IHEEM Past-President, Paul Fenton, announced that a Highly Commended would go to the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Estates and Facilities Team. MFT is one of the UK’s largest acute hospital Trusts, and the citation said that the challenges faced by its Estates and Facilities team ‘are amongst the most complex and varied of any European healthcare organisation’. They include
‘addressing significant backlog maintenance’, and ‘post- transaction integration issues’ following a merger with North Manchester General Hospital in 2021. The winner was announced as the Mersey Care NHS
Foundation Trust Estates team. Its citation explained that in the past eight years, the team had overseen the construction of five complex new mental health hospitals, alongside managing ‘several substantial refurbishments’, and £8 m worth of annual backlog maintenance schemes over 250 sites, all ‘delivered against a backdrop of economic downturn, capital restrictions, international supply issues, and COVID’.
Healthcare Supplier of the Year Award
The Healthcare Supplier of the Year Award is sponsored by Step Exhibitions, which organises Healthcare Estates in partnership with IHEEM. It recognises the company or organisation ‘that has been supplying the NHS and / or private healthcare successfully and reliably over the past 12 months’. Shortlisted this year were Power Control and Veolia. Jay Stacy, Exhibition Director at Step Exhibitions, announced the winner as Veolia, and a team from the company collected the award from Jay and Kevin Keegan. The company’s citation explained that in the past year,
Veolia’s specialist Energy teams had implemented ‘wide- ranging decarbonisation programmes at key hospitals, which will guarantee that they can meet the NHS carbon reduction targets for 2030, and deliver affordable, low- carbon energy efficiency upgrades’. These, it said, would provide guaranteed annual carbon savings of 22,747 tonnes per year.
New Build Project of the Year
The New Build Project of the Year Award category is always hotly contested, with the award – sponsored for 2024 by Eastwood Park Training – given annually to ‘an outstanding new build project that has been successfully delivered in the past 12 months, and is an exemplar in the areas of sustainability, technology, design, and patient wellbeing’. Shortlisted were:
n Aspen Wood Learning Disability Low Secure Forensic Inpatient Unit – Gilling Dod Architects.
Estates & Facilities Champion of Champions Award 34 Health Estate Journal November 2024
Estates & Facilities Team of the Year
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