PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
New President will build on predecessor’s ‘themes’
Giving his inaugural address as IHEEM President in London in November, Ian Hinitt outlined his key areas of focus during his two-year tenure. Two of his key priorities, he explained, would be continuing to champion the Institute’s work on apprenticeships and succession planning, and heading an ongoing drive initiated by his predecessor for greater diversity and inclusion in the healthcare engineering workforce. As HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports, he also discussed IHEEM and HefmA’s positive ongoing collaboration, highlighted the opportunity to showcase the profession and ‘UK healthcare plc’ to international visitors at this year’s Healthcare Estates event, and reflected on a busy 75th Anniversary year.
The 2018 IHEEM President’s Address and the presentation of awards to two more of IHEEM’s 10 longest-standing Company Affiliate members – Bender and Beacon Medæs – took place at the Institution of Structural Engineers in London on the evening of 14 November. It followed an afternoon roundtable event, at which participants included Ian Hinitt himself, leading academics, and senior NHS Trust estates and facilities personnel; the discussion (on which HEJ will report soon) focused on improving links and knowledge-sharing between university staff and students in the building engineering field, and healthcare engineering and estate management personnel, for mutual benefit. Beginning his address, Ian Hinitt said that, given that 2018 had been the Institute’s 75th anniversary year, he felt that before looking forward, he should look back briefly both at IHEEM’s legacy, and its anniversary celebrations. Of the latter, he said: “We commenced our more high profile celebrations in August on board HMS Warrior at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, with an evening reception, hosted by the city’s Lord Mayor, Lee Mason. The Mayor entertained us with an interesting look back at Portsmouth’s history, Pete Sellars spoke about IHEEM’s origins and early days, and IHEEM’s 250 plus Company Affiliate Members were saluted, with a number of the 10 longest-serving recognised with awards. This year’s Healthcare Estates conference, meanwhile, was the busiest yet, with over 4,000 attendees.
NHS’s 70th anniversary “Our celebrations also coincided with the NHS’s 70th anniversary, and at the opening of Healthcare Estates 2018 we were entertained by actor, Jon Buckeridge, who played Nye Bevan, reflecting on the famous Welsh Health Minister’s vision for the formation of the
environment policy, took place five years before the service’s establishment. The current NHS estates and facilities national budget is the service’s third largest behind pay and medicines, which makes our fraternity a significant influencer and contributor to the economy.”
International feel for 2019 flagship event
Ian Hinitt told guests at his inaugural Presidential Address: “We spend 10 per cent of our GDP on health, compared with 6 per cent on education, and 2 per cent on defence.”
NHS and the subsequent and societal technological changes that occurred in the decades since. This followed an emotional address by Nye Bevan’s great niece, Nygaire, at a dinner in Cardiff in late August held almost 75 years to the day after the Institute was established. “From my standpoint,” Ian Hinitt continued, “the NHS is as important now as it was then. We spend 10 per cent of our GDP on health, compared with 6 per cent on education, and 2 per cent on defence. IHEEM’s founding, and its first input into NHS estates and facilities built
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Looking ahead, the Institute’s new President said this October’s Healthcare Estates event would see IHEEM and the event’s organiser, Step Exhibitions, working in tandem to host the International Federation of Hospital Engineering’s European conference and global meetings alongside the annual IHEEM conference. Ian Hinitt said: “This will be a tremendous opportunity for show visitors to hear about hospital engineering and built environment innovations from all over the world, and a chance for UK healthcare plc and our Company Affiliates to showcase their products and services.”
Ian Hinitt said he would be working closely with IHEEM’s Conference and Exhibition Committee to ensure that IHEEM and the UK were ‘well represented to promote our national treasure – the NHS – and our industry excellence on the global stage’. His next focus was succession planning – one of the key themes of his immediate predecessor’s Presidency. He said: “We are now in the third year of IHEEM’s five-year strategic plan. I will be working to further progress this and establish any further strategic plans that I, Council, and the Vice- President, determine appropriate in consultation with our membership.”
The current NHS estates and facilities national budget is the service’s third largest behind pay and medicines, which makes our fraternity a significant influencer
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