INSTITUTE NEWS Manchester event will mark two key milestones
Healthcare Estates is now just two months away, and the event will be celebrating both IHEEM’s 75th anniversary and the 70th birthday of the NHS.
Event director, Steve Webb, said: “The theme of this year’s IHEEM conference is ‘Our Heritage, Your Future’. The future is looking exciting, with new technology, innovation, and streamlining of processes and working methodology, all aimed at saving money and increasing efficiency, while enhancing and improving the patient experience and patient care.” Outgoing IHEEM President, Pete Sellars, will open the conference, followed by a special ‘thespian performance’ to mark IHEEM’s anniversary and the NHS’s landmark birthday. Plenary sessions will begin with a keynote presentation from Simon Corben, director and head of Profession, NHS Estates and Facilities, at NHS Improvement. A second keynote presentation, from Nick Hulme, chief executive for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, and STP lead for Suffolk and North East Essex Sustainability & Transformation Partnership, will be followed by a panel discussion with key healthcare sector representatives, including Rose Gallagher, professional lead, Infection Prevention and Control, at the Royal College of Nursing.
Three parallel streams
This year’s conference is divided into three parallel streams that run across both days of the event: Strategy and Leadership, Engineering and Facilities Management, and Planning, Design and Construction. Day 1 will cover the following themes: ‘Strategy’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Procurement’, ‘Risk and funding’, ‘Energy’; ‘Well buildings’; ‘Light in healthcare environments’, and ‘Design for efficient operation’, with a module each also from Architects for Health and ProCure22.
Day two’s keynote presentation from
Keynote speakers, Nick Hulme (left), CEO of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, and Hayaatun Sillem, the RAE’s new CEO.
Dr Hayaatun Sillem, chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering, will be aligned with one of IHEEM’s initiatives – focusing on women in engineering, and a new initiative to enhance diversity and equality in healthcare engineering, and the role of the apprentice. NHS Improvement will also deliver a ‘surgery’ on the morning of 10 October, covering best practice and the NHSI’s ‘action themes – now, and for the future’. The conference’s second day programme will also cover ‘Technology – both for operational efficiency and patient treatment’, ‘Compliance’, ‘Regeneration and planning’, ‘Design for clinical service’, and ‘Safety and the built environment’.
Diverse content based on real-world experience
Steve Webb said: “There are more NHS Trusts represented on the speaker panel than ever before, discussing projects, initiatives, and case studies, in their working environment. These are as diverse as linking public transport for easier hospital access, sustainable behaviour change, managing property and land holdings, reducing energy consumption, introducing new technology to improve workflow, building refurbishment projects, state- of-the-art treatment technology, and the building, planning, and management required to deliver that new treatment.
Building Services Design Engineer apprentices, Megan Whitbread and Shane Sullivan of Troup Bywaters + Anders chat to Lord
O’Shaughnessy and Pete Sellars on the ‘Apprentice Today, Leaders Tomorrow’ theatre at last year’s Healthcare Estates event.
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“All the estates professionals delivering these presentations have invaluable first-hand experience from projects they have been involved in. Healthcare Estates is a great opportunity for estates professionals to learn from their peers, share ideas and solutions, and network across the profession. Registration for the conference is open, with a special ‘early bird’ booking rate available until 30 August, and hour-long ‘modules’ available to book as separate ‘units’.”
A ‘raft of events’ during the exhibition
Meanwhile, event manager, Michelle Michelucci, reports, the exhibition is gearing up for a record-breaking event, with a host of new supporting organisations planning a raft of events over the two days ‘to inform, delight, and excite, our visitors’. She explained: “Visitors will be able to take advantage of a daily ‘clinic’ on the ‘Apprentice Today, Leaders Tomorrow’ theatre’, which will again be sponsored by Troup Bywaters + Anders, working closely this year with Investors in People and the National Apprenticeship Service. Visitors to this theatre will have the opportunity to question the experts about running an apprenticeship scheme. The area will also host all apprentices coming to the exhibition, and provide lunch vouchers and badges for all.” Companies wanting more information on the clinic, and details of the apprentice programme, should visit
www.healthcare-estates.com/ theatre-apprentice-today-leaders- tomorrow.
Estates and facilities professionals will also be able to listen to and meet representatives from companies that provide solutions for water safety in this year’s Water & Infection Control Zone. Sessions will cover topics including ‘Rapid microbiology’, ‘Existing and emerging water pathogens’, and ‘The challenges of infection control and engineering’. New to the area this year are SoPHE – the Society of Public Health Engineers, part of CIBSE, and PWTAG – the Pool Water Treatment Advisory Group. Both will offer advice, alongside the Water Management Society and the Legionella Control Association.
Next month’s issue
Steve Webb added: “In next month’s HEJ we will focus on the ‘Fire & Security in Healthcare’ area – boosted this year by the presence of the Fire Protection Association, and the ‘Facilities Management in Healthcare’ zone – featuring the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals (AHCP) and the Healthcare Facilities Consortium (HFC).”
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