HEALTHCARE ESTATES
The well-attended annual IHEEM conference features many high-level speakers.
changes to the format of the programme to provide more in-depth coverage of each subject, and more opportunity to interact with speakers. Speaking sessions in the main programme have been extended to 25 minutes per presentation, with each hour-long block of content concluding with a 10-minute panel Q&A session, featuring all the speakers in that block.”
High-profile NHS leaders speaking High-profile NHS leaders in the speaker line include Simon Corben, Director and Head of Profession of NHS Estates and Facilities; Julie Critchley, Director of NHS Scotland Assure, Procurement Commissioning and Facilities – NHS National Services Scotland; Stuart Douglas, Director (Specialist Estates Services) – NHS Wales; Natalie Forrest, Senior Responsible Owner – New Hospital Programme, and Malcolm Twite, Executive Director, Property and Operations, Community Health Partnerships. Distinguished academics in the
programme, meanwhile, include Professor Catherine Noakes, Professor of Environmental Engineering for Buildings – University of Leeds; Professor Billy Hare, Deputy Director, BEAM Research Centre, School of Computing & Built Environment – Glasgow Caledonian University, and
Direct employees of the NHS and private medical providers, IHEEM members, and Architects for Health members, all enjoy ‘VIP’ status at the event.
Professor Grant Mills, Professor of Healthcare Infrastructure Delivery and Faculty Lead for Health – Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London. Delegates will also hear from leaders at
key private sector organisations supporting the NHS – including Gary Naylor, Managing Director at gbpartnerships manage; Suzanne MacCormick, Clinical Planner and Global Healthcare Consultant; Phil Bryant, Head of Public Sector Sales at Centrica Business Solutions; Martin Clark, Senior Director and UK Head of Healthcare at Currie & Brown, and Martyn Symonds, Senior Project Manager at Kier Construction. IHEEM is also pleased to welcome the President of the IFHE, Steve Rees, who will be part of the Conference’s closing session on 11 October.
The conference’s ‘five key themes’ The 2023 conference programme is organised around five themes that reflect key challenges affecting the healthcare engineering and EFM sector. Each theme has a keynote presentation and panel discussion taking place in the plenary theatre, plus several presentations and case studies delivered in the designated conference room for that theme. The five themes are:
Theme 1
Governance, Assurance & Compliance of the Healthcare Estates & Infrastructure How can we ensure that healthcare estates services and critical functions relating to patient safety are compliant and appropriately managed to meet the increased governance in national policy and legislative requirements of governing bodies such as the HSE and CQC? The keynote session on this theme
Perry McCarthy, the original BBC Top Gear ‘Stig’, will speak during the closing conference session.
will take place on Tuesday 10 October, and will be chaired by Pete Sellars, CEO and Past-President, IHEEM. The keynote panel discussing this theme will consist of: Simon Corben, Director and Head of Profession of NHS Estates and Facilities – NHS England Commercial Directorate; Julie Critchley, Director of NHS Scotland
Assure, Procurement Commissioning and Facilities – NHS National Services Scotland, and Stuart Douglas, Director (Specialist Estates Services) – NHS Wales. Case studies on this theme will be
presented on by James Paget University Hospitals NHS Trust, and Norfolk and Waveney ICB, with Scott Hislop from the Health and Safety Investigation Branch discussing ‘Learning Through a Safety Lens’.
James Hackett is the Programme
Director for the James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust New Hospital Programme, and he, Will Brown, Assistant Director of Strategy and Transformation at the Trust, and Martin Clark from Currie & Brown, will discuss the challenges inherent in strategic planning at system level, the benefits of taking a programmatic approach to delivering system-wide transformation, and how capital developments can act as a catalyst for service change. Mark Page, ICS Associate Director for
Estates at Norfolk and Waveney ICB, and Raymond Mcfee from WT Partnership, will focus on the many factors involved in the governance of capital investment, and the infrastructure risks to delivery of safe, sustainable care.
Theme 2
Implementing Digital Technology & Innovation into the Healthcare Estate What are the key issues impacting the EFM profession in adopting and implementing digital technologies in both the existing estate and the healthcare built environment of the future? The keynote session on this theme
will take place on Tuesday 10 October, and will be chaired by IHEEM President, Alison Ryan. Keynote speakers on this theme are: Professor Billy Hare, Deputy Director, BEAM Research Centre, School of Computing & Built Environment – Glasgow Caledonian University, and Professor Grant Mills, Professor of Healthcare Infrastructure Delivery and Faculty Lead for Health – Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London.
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