HEALTHCARE ESTATES IHEEM AWARDS 2024
Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
Sustainable Achievement Award
Care Unit, and a ‘state-of-the-art’ Same Day Emergency Care unit (SDEC), which the practice explained ‘achieves emergency care for patients in the most efficient possible way, when they need it most’. The winner was announced as Jefferson Sheard
Architects – for Crawley Hospital Child Development Centre. The practice explained: “The refurbishment design needed to ‘operate’ like a hospital while not ‘feeling’ like one. A key element of this was to create a calming waiting area, supporting wellbeing and reducing user anxiety. This was achieved through a tranquil ‘forest’ concept, an integral element being a central feature tree installation.”
Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
The evening’s penultimate award, for Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year, was sponsored by Equans UK & Ireland and IHEEM, and was introduced by the Institute ‘to recognise an initiative or programme within a Trust designed to ensure the wellbeing and mental health of its team’. Nominees were: n Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, for the Rochdale Infirmary Oasis Rooftop Garden.
n Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust – for its Wellbeing Guardians Initiative.
After the dinner and awards presentation, all the winners and Highly Commended entrants returned to the stage to be photographed with Kevin Keegan.
“To announce the winner and present the award,” said host, Andy Powell, “please welcome Robert Dashwood, General manager from Equans UK & Ireland, and IHEEM’s Immediate Past-President, Alison Ryan.” The winner was announced as Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Its entry said: “Our Estates Department is predominantly male, and following the tragic passing of one of our engineering team through suicide, we wanted to ensure that we provided clear, dedicated, and timely support to all staff (not only men) who might need it. A team of four was created to investigate the existing services available and their suitability to our workforce.”
Sustainable Achievement Award
The Sustainable Achievement Award, sponsored by Tilbury Douglas, was the last award to be presented, and recognises ‘the organisation or team that has made
the best use of innovative technology and sustainable practices to reduce its project’s carbon footprint in the last 12 months’. Nominees were: n Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – for its ‘Delivering Meaningful Social Value’ initiative.
n Merit – for its entry, ‘Decarbonising Healthcare: Merit delivers sustainable solutions with the Solihull Elective Hub’.
n Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – for its St James Low Carbon Heat Network.
n UCLH & Mitie for UCLH’s ‘proactive approach and dedication to sustainability and operational excellence’ with the adoption of EC fan technology. Before announcing the winner, Mark Douglas, Technical director at category sponsor, Tilbury Douglas, explained that a Highly Commended certificate would go to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for its St James Low Carbon Heat Network. In its entry Leeds Teaching Hospitals explained that it aims to become ‘one of the greenest Trusts in the UK’, implementing its decarbonisation strategy with the development of ‘an innovative low-carbon heat network, utilising heat from the CHP, heat pumps, and the Leeds PIPES district heat network, enabling significant carbon savings (over 5,000 tCO2e a year), while providing a resilient healthcare engineering solution’. The winner was announced as Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Its citation explained that since publishing its Sustainability Strategy in 2021, the Trust had seen ‘an acceleration towards its targets’, but also ‘an increase in the calls from colleagues to strive to do even more’. LUHFT says it ‘embraces its role as an anchor institution, and through innovative practices, works to improve the health and lives of its staff and patients’. The evening’s last award having been presented, Andy
Powell thanked all the dinner guests for attending, and congratulated all the nominees and winners. He reminded guests to make a donation to Prostate Cancer UK, and asked the audience to give a further round of applause to special guest, Kevin Keegan OBE. He also thanked all the sponsors, and all who had entered an award this year. A memorable evening, with a suitably upbeat and celebratory feel.
36 Health Estate Journal November 2024
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