COMMENT IHEEM Celebrating the birth of the NHS in Wales
JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT
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A highly successful IHEEM Wales Branch Regional Conference in Cardiff in late August was timed to coincide – almost to the day – with the Institute’s 75th Anniversary, and of course, with the NHS’s own 70th ‘birthday’. It was thus especially appropriate that one of the speakers at a celebratory dinner held during the event at the St David’s Hotel on Cardiff Bay to mark these milestones should be Nygaire Bevan, the great niece of Aneurin Bevan, the Labour MP for Ebbw Vale, who, in July 1948, while Health Minister, ‘launched’ the NHS. Nygaire Bevan spoke with pride about her illustrious predecessor, and explained how, from humble beginnings growing up in the Welsh Valleys, this determined and committed man, who initially worked as coal-miner, forged a successful political career which saw him drive through the foundation of a health service still revered and envied in many parts of the world.
At the conference, the wide range of topics discussed included fire safety in healthcare buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, infection control – from both a historical and a current-day standpoint, effective fire evacuation, the threats from cyber-attack, and the challenges of managing hospital buildings located close to the sea.
There were also interesting presentations on COVER STORY
Stainless steel – a sustainable and hygienic solution
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the construction – at UCLH in central London – of one of the NHS’s first two high energy proton beam therapy units – and the logistical and practical challenges involved, a look at a new £350 m specialist acute hospital being built near Cwmbran, and a useful update on NHSI’s plans to update a number of key HTM and HBN guidance documents.
As this issue is published, the doors will be opening in Manchester to IHEEM’s Healthcare Estates 2018 conference and exhibition. Last month’s HEJ included a full show preview, focusing on the conference themes and speakers, a varied exhibition theatre programme, and the products and services – many of them new – to be shown by over 200 exhibitors, as well as highlighting the annual IHEEM Awards Dinner – a chance to recognise excellence, and to network and make new contacts. Healthcare Estates 2018 will also see IHEEM’s outgoing President, Pete Sellars, hand over to his successor, Ian Hinitt, following a busy two years in office, during which he has done much to raise IHEEM’s profile, strengthen its links with other bodies, and indeed drive work to address its membership balance. He will be a hard act to follow.
Jonathan Baillie I Editor
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