PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
‘Five Key Themes’ spotlighted He added: “I have worked closely with the Institute for many years, and Pete Sellars’ Five Key Themes resonate with me very deeply, so I would like to take some time to focus on them, our progress to date, and our evolving plans to drive things forward with your support and that of the Vice-President, Paul Fenton, a former HefmA national chair. HefmA and IHEEM are collaborating on several important fronts, and that collaboration is integral to our strategy.”
Ian Hinitt explained that the role of IHEEM Vice-President had been established ‘to ensure effective succession planning and continuity in strategy’. He explained: “While the President’s leadership will influence the Institute’s direction, I believe the new Vice- Presidential role is a huge step in ensuring continuity and consistency.” Moving to his ‘own plans for, and interpretation of’, the five-year strategy already agreed by Council, Ian Hinitt said: “The Council, the Vice-President and I will be focusing on a couple of specific areas where I feel I can make a significant contribution. As I have already mentioned, I am particularly keen to promote diversity and inclusion and apprenticeships – in the latter case both at trade and technician level, as well as degree apprenticeships.”
Strong financial stability Alluding to the Institute’s ‘very strong financial stability’ in the context of its short-medium term plans, he added: “We have healthy reserves, which currently exceed our reserves policy set by Council. Our latest annual accounts show that our current assets stand at over £700,000. I think it is incumbent on the Institute’s Trustees – namely the President and Council, to very carefully manage IHEEM’s finances. I believe the finances have been well managed, which will enable us now to consider investment initiatives in line with our charitable aims. We are now in a strong position to consider investment opportunities which will enhance our member offer and assist in delivering our strategic vision to 2021.”
Five key themes
n Serving IHEEM’s membership. n Developing future leaders. n Engaging with new partner organisations.
n Supporting existing partner organisations.
n Strengthening the Institute’s national and international profile.
The new IHEEM President said he would be continuing the work of his predecessor, Pete Sellars, on the former’s ‘Five Key Themes’.
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‘vast body of knowledge’ was the mainstay of IHEEM’s subject-specific Technical Platforms and Authorising Engineer Groups, which advised on national policy, best practice, and engineering standards development. The Institute’s collaboration with HefmA created ‘a stronger unified voice’ for both organisations, and through the two bodies’ joint consultation capabilities, provided ‘greater consistency and accuracy’ in the development of national policy, guidance documents, and best practice in support of NHSI objectives.
Pete Sellars and Ian Hinitt on the deck of HMS Warrior at a celebratory reception held on board the ironclad warship at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in August.
Ian Hinitt said he would now give the audience ‘a quick reminder’ of the Institute’s Five Key themes. He said: “One – as you would expect – is serving IHEEM’s membership. We have over 2,500 individual and affiliate members, and some 225 Company Affiliates. We are also looking at developing and engaging future leaders, supporting existing partner organisations, and developing new partnerships, to strengthen the Institute’s position on the national and international stage.”
Eight ‘focus areas’
Here the new IHEEM President said he would like to share IHEEM’s ‘progress to date’, and his plans on eight ‘key focus areas’. He said: “The first is collaboration with HefmA to create a stronger unified voice in the FM arena. Many of our core members are HefmA corporate members with associated estates and facilities leadership roles. HefmA is a professional association with a broad church membership encompassing all aspects of health facility management, and many members are indeed IHEEM members. HefmA has around 220 corporate NHS member Trusts, representing the greater majority of NHS organisations across England, including NHS England and Community Health Partnerships.” IHEEM meanwhile, the President stressed, was not a professional association, but rather a professional institute, with a focus on the built environment, engineering, and hard FM, membership, Continuing Professional Development, and professional registration with the Engineering Council. The Institute was routinely able to draw on the industry and its Corporate Affiliate membership through its 12 branches in the UK and two international branches in Hong Kong and Ireland. Ian Hinitt said this
Mutual membership initiative Ian Hinitt noted that last year’s Healthcare Estates conference saw IHEEM announce ‘a very exciting and recent’ agreement with HefmA which offers HefmA NHS Corporate Affiliate Members the opportunity to become IHEEM NHS Trust Affiliate Membership at no cost. He said: “This means that we have access to over 220 NHS organisations, and the milestone agreement will raise our profile, increase our membership, and provide a host of opportunities in progressing our five key themes.” Council representatives and branch chairs for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland were also progressing the offer, which had received a good initial response.
Ian Hinitt’s second ‘focal point’ was the ongoing partnership between IHEEM and HefmA to develop future guidance and best practice. While the two organisations have collaborated for some time on providing input into national estates policy development, in 2016 the partnership was formalised via a Memorandum of Understanding. Consequently IHEEM and HefmA are now actively working together on the scope for pooled resources and join venture opportunities, such as a unified response to the development of national policy, supporting groups such as the NHSI Future Standards Group in the redevelopment of HBN and HTM standards.
Jon Buckeridge gave a life-like performance as the NHS’s founder, Nye Bevan, at Healthcare Estates 2018.
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