IHEEM 2019 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
IHEEM and HEFMA were also working together with pooled resources and joint venture opportunities, such as a unified response to policy development at national level. Ian Hinitt said: “For example, we are currently supporting the ‘NHSI Future Standards Group’ in the development of revised HTM and HBN standards and guidance publications.” Through IHEEM’s collaboration with HEFMA, he had also discussed with the Association’s National Chair, Jonathan Stewart, how the two organisations could collaborate in developing and supporting apprentice training. He said: “Jonathan has expressed a willingness to contribute matched funding from HEFMA, to support the development of a National Apprentice Training Scheme already being progressed by IHEEM. NHSI has also recognised the need to develop a national apprenticeship training scheme, and our door is open for it to collaborate with IHEEM and HEFMA with a funded contribution.”
IHEEM and HEFMA joint membership venture
Ian Hinitt described the HEFMA and IHEEM joint venture Corporate NHS Trust Affiliate Membership scheme as ‘a significant opportunity for all trades technicians, tradesstaff, and apprentices, to take advantage of a free affiliate membership of IHEEM’. The Institute has written to all Trusts with an invitation to nominate named affiliates, at trades level, with no limit on the number of nominations for such personnel. He added: “IHEEM has worked closely with training providers for many years, and worthy of mention in particular is Eastwood Park, a long-standing Company Affiliate who we will be partnering with in developing the national training schemes.”
Strengthening national and international profile As to heightening its national and international standing, with over 40 countries represented, Ian Hinitt said he believed Healthcare Estates 2019 had significantly strengthened IHEEM’s national and international profile. He said: “The IFHE Europe delegation attracted 37 speakers in providing an insight into international healthcare engineering, and we were delighted to host Darryl Pitcher, the IFHE’s President, who gave an Australian perspective on developing and recognising workforce capacity (see HEJ – November 2019). Clearly, we are not alone in focusing on the best ways to sustain our workforce.”
International delegates’ visiting partners had had a full two days of sightseeing events around Manchester and Liverpool, while technical site visits for international delegates to Alder Hey
Jonathan Stewart of HEFMA, with whom Ian Hinitt has been in discussions on apprenticeship funding.
The Apprentice Zone at Healthcare Estates 2019. IHEEM has committed £30,000 a year for four years to the Northern and Yorkshire NHS Assessment Centre, to assist in funding a substantive Apprentice mentor and liaison manager.
Hospital and The Christie’s Proton Beam Therapy unit received excellent feedback – resulting in request from Hong Kong for a repeat visit to the UK, and reciprocal visits for IHEEM to Hong Kong in 2020, in building on the international Memorandum of Understanding between China and IHEEM signed in 2018.
2020 Congress in Rome The 2020 IFHE Europe Conference is scheduled for Rome this May, and Ian Hinitt said the Italian delegation was busy marketing the event. He explained: “Based on the success of this year’s Healthcare Estates conference, IHEEM will be marketing attendance at our 2020 annual event in Manchester to the international community.” He was also ‘delighted’ that IHEEM CEO and Past-President, Pete Sellars, had taken up office as IFHE Europe President at the IFHE meeting in Manchester.
In closing, Ian Hinitt said it had been
‘a privilege’ to serve as President over the last year, ‘working alongside so many talented and committed individuals in being part of IHEEM’s 75th Anniversary celebrations, culminating in the Institute’s largest and most successful conference to date’. He added: “We have made significant progress in redeveloping our business capability and member offer, and for the remainder of my two-year Presidential term, I am keen to support the development of a sustainable workforce for our industry, with a clear career development path, supported with the right level of CPD through accredited apprenticeship and specialist training, and degree education. I believe IHEEM can inspire and engender confidence in young people, particularly women and minority groups, to progress careers in healthcare engineering and estate management”.
Paving the way for CPD training While IHEEM was ‘paving the way for CPD training and apprenticeships’, Ian Hinitt said it was also reaching out to the NHS, who he said ‘must also be adaptable in sponsoring trades and technician apprenticeships, degree courses, and degree apprenticeships, in growing and sustaining our future workforce and leadership from our richly diverse society’. He closed by thanking the day’s hosts at Broadway House ‘for the excellent facilities and hospitality’, the event’s sponsors, MAC Consulting and SFG20, and ‘eminent speakers’, Sir Robert Naylor, Deborah Pullen MBE, and BESA CEO, David Frise, ‘for their excellent insights’. He added: “I’d also like to thank our Head Office staff for their tireless efforts in managing IHEEM’s day-to-day business while delivering a full and successful events programme for the 75th Anniversary and this year’s International Conference, and of course, all our volunteers at the Branches and various Technical Platforms.”
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