COMMENT IHEEM Closer collaboration with academia needed
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
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One of the potential dangers for time-pressed estates and facilities personnel responsible for the efficient running and maintenance of large hospitals today is that they may have little time or opportunity to speak to, or share experience with, their counterparts elsewhere – a process which can benefit both parties. Aside from the chance to learn from other Trusts’ Estates teams about innovative ways of working, new funding steams, or simply novel ways to carry out routine but important maintenance tasks, wouldn’t it also be beneficial for senior healthcare estates and facilities and engineering personnel to be able to keep up to date with the latest academic research that could impact on their field? Against this backdrop, an IHEEM roundtable in London last November (see pages 33-36) saw participants including IHEEM’s new President, Ian Hinitt, leading academics, and practising engineers, discuss how the Institute might forge stronger links with academia. Closer such connections could, it was agreed, not only benefit healthcare estates teams – by helping them improve efficiencies and cut costs through adoption of innovative practices based around the latest research by academics working in building engineering and construction disciplines, but would also
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increase opportunities for researchers to spend time in hospital environments. In some cases, time spent in an operating theatre, ward, plant room, or hospital laboratory, could make the difference between a successful study, with positive and useful outcomes, and failure of research to get off the ground. In this month’s HEJ we cover the first half of what proved a lively and thought-provoking roundtable discussion, which touched not only on opportunities for closer collaboration, but also on some of the apparent barriers. Interestingly, although IHEEM introduced a University Affiliate membership grade in 2009 – to encourage lecturers, other academic staff, and undergraduates, to join – Ian Hinitt noted that to date take-up had been disappointingly ‘slow’, and vowed to make stronger marketing of this membership grade a priority, arguing – as the roundtable participants acknowledged – that closer working between universities and IHEEM’s membership would be especially beneficial at a time when, with an ageing profile, and many experienced healthcare engineers close to retirement, valuable expertise and knowledge risk being lost.
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