IHEEM 2019 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
President outlines his role in delivering IHEEM ‘vision’
The Institute’s busiest and biggest Healthcare Estates conference to date, addressing skills shortages through investment in training, education, CPD, and apprenticeships, joint working with other professional engineering bodies in pursuit of common aims, and further work to strengthen IHEEM’s national and international profile, were among the wide range of topics covered by Ian Hinitt in a wide-ranging President’s Address given at an IHEEM half-day seminar in Westminster in November. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
Ian Hinitt gave his President’s Address as part of an IHEEM seminar, titled ‘NHS Engineering & Estates: A vision to 2030’, held on 14 November last year at the Broadway House conference centre in London’s Tothill Street. After his presentation, which concluded the seminar, guests walked the short distance to the Cholmondeley Room and Terrace overlooking the River Thames at the House of Lords – the setting for a three- course lunch and the presentation by IHEEM Honorary Patron, Lord Carter, of the 2019 award established in his honour (see report on pages 51-54).
Ian Hinitt began his seminar presentation, in the Westminster Suite at Broadway House, by explaining that in delivering his inaugural address in 2018, he had set out his plans for his two-year Presidential term in supporting the IHEEM Strategy – ‘Our vision to 2021’. The Institute was now in the fifth year of the Strategy, which is based around the following ‘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 IHEEM President explained that, having reflected on the ‘Five Key Themes’ at his inauguration, he had decided to focus, during his Presidency, on two specific areas for IHEEM’s membership – ‘Diversity & Inclusion’, and ‘Training and Education’ of the profession’s future workforce. Before reflecting on the past year’s progress, however, he was keen to reflect on the success of Healthcare Estates 2019, in October in Manchester, as well as on IHEEM’s ‘strong financial position’, and on its ‘evolving business capability and capacity’.
Largest and busiest conference yet He said: “IHEEM’s 2019 conference was our largest and busiest yet, with over 2,300 attendees visiting an expanded exhibition
IHEEM’s President, Ian Hinitt, said: “We have made significant progress in redeveloping our business capability and member offer.”
space over the two-day event.” The event was particularly significant, he said, both in following the NHS’s 70th anniversary, and IHEEM’s 75th Anniversary celebrations, in 2018, and because it saw IHEEM host the 26th European Congress of the International Federation of Healthcare Engineering, with 40 countries from all over the world represented by both speakers and visitors. The internationally- themed event at Manchester Central had not only ‘provided a huge opportunity’ for delegates to hear about hospital engineering and built environment innovations and developments from across the globe’, but had also afforded an excellent opportunity for ‘UK Plc’, and IHEEM’s Company Affiliate Members, ‘to showcase the UK’s wares and services’. The two-day conference programme saw 130 speakers present, which Ian Hinitt said demonstrated IHEEM’s ‘capability in punching way above its weight for an engineering institute with 2,000 members’. Keynote presentations from speakers including IFHE’s President, Darryl Pitcher, NHSI’s director and head of
Profession, NHS Estates and Facilities, Simon Corben, and Engineering Council CEO, Alasdair Coates, contrasted with an impassioned address from Sally Becker, ‘The Angel of Mostar’, on her inspiring, and at times, extremely hazardous, humanitarian work to evacuate children from war-torn Kosovo. The conference’s first day also saw NHS England CEO, Simon Stevens, give an address, in which he praised the sector’s hard work and commitment, and took a number of questions from the floor.
Passionate about the sector’s contribution
Ian Hinitt said: “All this year’s Healthcare Estates speakers spoke passionately about the importance and competence of estates staff in healthcare, while other topics discussed ranged from information technology, Artificial Intelligence, and climate change, to the sustainability of the service.” At a ‘sold-out’ awards dinner, Andy Wavell, former chair of the Institute’s International Committee, and leader of the bid for this year’s
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