HEALTHCARE ESTATES
Multi-streamprogrammehas a wide choice of content
This year’s Healthcare Estates – being held from 18-22 October, will combine a five-day interactive online conference with a live exhibition at Manchester Central over two of the days – Tuesday 19 October and Wednesday 20 October – plus the chance to ‘visit’ the stands ‘virtually’ on the other days, and to network ‘digitally’ throughout. Conference sessions will focus both on key ongoing issues for the sector – such as effective succession planning, reducing the NHS’s carbon footprint, fire safety, and system governance – and on the need for tomorrow’s healthcare facilities to be more resilient and adaptable in the light of the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and changing care patterns. HEJ, editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
All of this year's Healthcare Estates conference will be accessible online, with delegates able to dial in at any time and select those presentations of most interest to them, accessing them via a dedicated web platform. Each of the five days will have a different overall ‘headline’ theme – for instance Day One will focus on ‘Hospitals of the Future’, Day Four on 'Workforce', and Day Five, ‘International Perspective’. The conference streams on each day will accord with these themes. While this year’s format is different to any previous Healthcare Estates event, the ‘headlining’ of each day with a different theme means the conference programme offers a particularly broad spectrum of content – from the design and construction of healthcare facilities, to governance, sustainability, how to make hospitals more adaptable and resilient, what healthcare designers, planners, builders, and providers, can learn from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to attract, retain, properly train, and look after, the workforce.
Technical Platform presentations Conference delegates – presentations will simultaneously be streamed into Manchester Central on 19 and 20 October to enable exhibition attendees there to view them – will also have the chance to hear from IHEEM’s Technical Platforms, to learn from case studies, and to gain an international view in an ‘International Perspective’ session on the last day. In the latter, subjects discussed will include a new fully automated centralised sterile services facility in Bergen, Norway, enhancing the safety of medical personnel in hospitals via a ‘protective airflow solution’, and ‘Infrastructure Climate Change Action targets’.
Day One
Following the event’s opening each day (see pages 98-101 for the full programme), and the opportunity for an online or face- to-face exhibition visit, each day’s programme will get under way with a keynote address. The first day keynote (with the day headlined ‘Hospitals of the Future’), entitled ‘An Introduction to the New Hospital Programme’s Commercial Philosophy’, will be given by Emma-Jane Houghton, the Programme’s Commercial Director. Having completed her first degree in English and music in 2001, she trained as a chartered quantity surveyor, before working at Mott Macdonald and Turner & Townsend, and rapidly rising through commercial advisory and construction delivery roles. Her career highlights have included working on Heathrow Terminal 5, the East London Line Extension, for KPMG, and on Heathrow’s expansion – where she was Commercial Delivery Director responsible for procurement, contracts, and supplier
Emma-Jane Houghton and David Flory.
management. Since January she has been with the Cabinet Office. She also worked on the development of the Construction Innovation Hub’s Value Toolkit, and chairs the Crossrail 2 Expert Cost, Commercial and Risk Group (ERG), and the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Civil Engineer of the Future Working Group, ‘Engineering Rebellion’. She is a Major in the Engineering and Logistics Staff Corps commissioned to provide impartial and confidential advice to the British Armed Forces.
Board-level expertise Day One’s second keynote, ‘In Conversation with David Flory CBE’, will provide a chance to hear from the Designate Chair for Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS, and Interim Chair, Cheshire and Merseyside ICS. Since 2015 David Flory has been the Chief of Hospitals at Hamad Medical Corporation in the State of Qatar, responsible for 14 hospitals with 2,500 beds. Prior to moving to the Middle East, he had gained 22 years’ Board-level experience as Chief Executive and Executive Director of NHS organisations in
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