HEALTHCARE ESTATES
Historic dramatisation will open proceedings
IHEEM’s flagship event, Healthcare Estates, is only a matter of days away. Celebrating 70 years of the NHS and the 75th anniversary of IHEEM, this year the theme is ‘Our Heritage, Your Future’. In recognition of this notable ‘birthday’ for the Institute and the NHS, the conference proceedings will be preceded by a dramatisation of the development and progression of the healthcare sector – 70 years of the NYS, 75 Years of IHEEM – A Look Back in Time, including a focus on Aneurin Bevan, the Welsh Health Minister who launched the service in 1948. Thereafter, following an introduction from the current President, Pete Sellars. Simon Corben’s keynote address, ‘An update from the Centre’, will open the plenary session with the perspective of the NHSI, with Nick Hulme, Chief Executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, and STP lead for Suffolk and North East STP, then delivering a forward-looking keynote session intriguingly entitled: ‘How healthy is your horse? The future of the NHS’. The three conference streams this year are themed ‘Strategy and Leadership’, ‘Engineering and Facilities Management’, and ‘Planning, Design and Construction’, with the topics covered on Day One set to include sustainability, procurement and risk, energy, well buildings, light in healthcare environments, procuring design, and design.
Drive to attract apprentices Among the key areas of focus during Pete Sellars’ Presidency have been encouraging apprentices into healthcare engineering, and the promotion of diversity and women in engineering; the first two speakers on the conference’s second day, 10 October, will address these areas. Kim Shelley from Eta Projects, a founder member of IHEEM’s new Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (HEJ – September 2018), will discuss diversity and equality in engineering and the role of the apprentice, while in the Day Two keynote presentation, Dr Hayaatun Sillem, Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, will present on ‘Engineering better care for everyone’. The topics covered in the three conference streams on 10 October are: ‘Technology’, ‘Compliance, regeneration,
European countries coming to Manchester for the first time next year to join the IHEEM conference and take part in technical tours during their stay. The theme for the 2019 Healthcare Estates conference will be ‘Meeting modern healthcare challenges with technology & innovation’, and European companies and healthcare facilities are being encouraged to present papers for consideration by the IHEEM committee.
Aneurin Bevan, who ‘launched’ the NHS in July 1948 while Labour Health Minister, and is widely credited as having pushed through the plans for the new service.
and planning’, and ‘Design for clinical service’. In addition, on 10 October NHSI will host a two-hour Estates and Facilities Surgery focused on the future of the NHS estate, led by the national workstream leads, giving delegates focussed time with this team, and an insight into the national landscape. The session will also provide a route for Trust representatives to actively contribute toward shaping the national programmes going forward. NHSI is also offering scheduled one-to- one consultations with NHS Estates and Facilities staff throughout the two days – bookable on the NHSI collaboration hub. Event director, Steve Webb, said: “The
conference programme is organised into parallel hour-long modules of content, enabling the conference to be accessed in bite-sized chunks. Delegates can move
The organisers, Step Exhibitions, have also announced a series of changes to the layout of the exhibition, and will be moving the main plenary theatre onto the exhibition floor, to allow ‘VIP guests’ and delegates to access the keynote speeches and main speakers.
Steve Webb said: “We have been growing the event since moving to Manchester, and now utilise most of the Central Hall. We are keen, in the year that we are hosting the IFHE Congress, to make the keynote addresses and key speakers accessible to NHS attendees, and also to allow exhibitors to hear the main addresses taking place on both mornings.
Next year’s Healthcare Estates event will be co- located with the IFHE Europe Congress 2019.
between conference streams according to their area of interest, essentially making their own bespoke conference experience.”
Exciting plans for Healthcare Estates 2019
Among ‘a host of exciting improvements and new initiatives for Healthcare Estates in 2019’, IHEEM has already announced that it will host the IFHE Europe 2019 Congress, with members of the IFHE
‘Radical changes’ made “We have also looked at the exhibition’s layout, and made some radical changes, including new areas, new theatres, and moving the conference to the purpose-built Cobden Rooms at the front of the venue. The location of the conference in another part of the venue has always been a slight issue with exhibitors, as delegates had to leave the exhibition to attend sessions. Using the Cobden Rooms and the
rooms at the front of the venue will allow us to better accommodate what has now become the UK’s largest healthcare event in the main hall of Manchester Central, giving delegates, visitors, and exhibitors, a unique experience over the two days, with everything accessible from the hall and main entrance.”
‘Further innovations and improvements’ are promised over the coming months, with a new dinner venue, and a larger exhibition, with ‘250+’ companies.
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