HEALTHCARE ESTATES
of motivation, facing down challenges, and overcoming adversity, as well as the lessons in teamwork that his sport has instilled. The conference addresses in detail the critical subjects affecting the healthcare engineering and estates management sector today, and those shaping its future, with the aim of providing ideas, inspiration, and answers, for tackling those challenges. Curated by the IHEEM Conference Committee, the broad programme features 25 hours of CPD-accredited content across two days, including presentations and interactive workshops. The full programme can be found on the
event website at
www.healthcare-estates. com.
IHEEM members can add conference
sessions attended at Healthcare Estates to their CPD record via the MyIHEEM CPD platform. The Event Programme (available at the event) will contain QR codes for each session, making it possible to quickly and easily add hours to your record via the platform, using your mobile device.
Five conference themes In support of the overarching theme for Healthcare Estates 2024 of ‘Embracing the Challenges’, the conference programme is organised around five themes to explore the challenges that have the greatest impact on the sector. These are:
Theme 1
Strategic Health & Social Care Planning Sessions on this theme will explore how the estates and facilities profession can effectively support and influence the delivery of the Integrated Care Systems’ future strategic planning requirements. Speakers on this theme come from
organisations including NHS Property Services, various ICBs and NHS Trusts, plus specialist consultancy services, leading architectural firms, and the IHEEM Strategic Estates Management Advisory Platform. Topics explored include: health
investment plans; working with local authorities; masterplanning; collaborative working; multi-agency strategic infrastructure planning; reducing emergency admissions, and healthcare-led approaches to civic regeneration.
Theme 2
Governance, Assurance & Compliance Sessions on this theme will look at how we can 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 the legislative requirements of governing bodies such as HSE and CQC. Speakers on this theme come from NHS England, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB), companies
Healthcare Estates 2024 will close with a Keynote from motivational speaker, Nicolas Hamilton, an inspirational sportsman who is the first disabled athlete to compete in the British Touring Car Championship.
and consultancies who work in partnership with NHS Trusts, and from the IHEEM Strategic Estates Management Advisory Platform, the IHEEM Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Technical Platform, and the IHEEM Fire Safety Technical Platform. Topics explored include: PAM: Paper
to digital software; PFI handback; safety management; and the new NHSE assurance function, plus those covered by the specific focuses of the IHEEM platforms.
Theme 3
Digital Technology & Innovation Sessions on this theme will highlight the key issues impacting the estates and facilities profession in adopting and implementing digital technologies – in both the existing estate, and the healthcare built environment of the future. The speaker line-up on this theme includes experts from NHS England, the New Hospital Programme, the University of Cambridge, NHS Trusts, leading engineering consultancies and architectural firms, a global healthcare training provider, and a number of innovative companies and start-ups. Topics explored include AI for access to
best practice and collaborative insights; implementing digital in new and retained estates; embracing digital technologies to optimise care and connect families; developing digital innovation in healthcare; ‘intelligent’ hospitals; innovation in virtual care, and transforming healthcare through smart lighting solutions.
Theme 4
Medical Engineering & Healthcare Engineering Sessions on this theme will explore the technical, specialist, and scientific challenges that need to be addressed to
ensure that future medical engineering and healthcare engineering services are designed differently, particularly in relation to the areas of ventilation, water safety, infection control, and infrastructure resilience. Speakers on this theme will be drawn
from hospitals in the UK and abroad, while representatives from four IHEEM Technical Platforms – Ventilation, Decontamination, Water, and Electrical, will also present. Topics explored will include planning the
delivery of digitised, sustainable modern healthcare facilities from an equipment lens; reducing infection in ultraclean air operating theatres; commissioning new and refurbished critical air-handling units; Nitrous Oxide exposure, and the patient safety operating theatre of the future.
Theme 5
Estates & Facilities Services Sessions on this theme will look at how the estates and facilities profession can continue to deliver high-quality healthcare services and functions to patients as personnel face increased and conflicting challenges of capability, capacity, and efficiency, particularly around finances, workforce, and the Net Zero carbon agenda. The speaker line-up for this theme will include experts from NHS Shared Business Services, three NHS Trusts, UCL, The Carbon and Energy Fund, an international provider of air purification systems, a specialist fire safety audit firm, and two award-winning consultancies. Topics explored will include sustainable
waste management in the NHS; banishing waste in capital projects; RAAC surveying, management, and compliance; AP/ CP Training & Registration; an energy dashboard for the total NHS; aiming for Net Zero in operating theatres; innovation in ventilation, and clinically-led models of care.
Workshops Conference delegates enjoy exclusive access to the three workshops on offer at Healthcare Estates 2024. On 8 October there will be an opportunity to interact and collaborate with the IHEEM Strategic Estates Management Advisory Platform in a two-hour workshop. NHS England is running two workshops on 9 October. The morning workshop is entitled ‘Excellence in Construction and Achieving Success’, and will be facilitated by the NHSE ProCure23 team, led by Helen Sturdy, National Head of Construction & P23 Framework, NHS England. This two-hour session will provide updates on new guidance and tools, share best practice, and facilitate discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking. In the afternoon of 9 October, Fiona
Daly, Michael Rope, and Abigail Pride, who are National Programme Leads
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