COMMENT IHEEM Effective succession planning


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This month’s HEJ is published 75 years to the month after IHEEM’s original forerunner, known then simply as ‘The Institution’, was founded at an inaugural meeting at Nottingham City Hospital. Those founding members, who included Chief Engineers from hospitals in and England and Wales, were ‘of the opinion that there was a need for a national organisation to co-ordinate exchange of information between the engineers themselves and between the engineers and those with whom they came into contact about the work engineers in hospitals did’. Three-quarters of a century is a long time, especially in a dynamic arena like healthcare, and the founders of what is now IHEEM could never – as they faced the privations of the Second World War – have envisaged how far medicine and treatment, and indeed advances in healthcare engineering and estate management, would come in that period. Despite such advances, and a modern-day healthcare landscape that would have been inconceivable in pre-NHS 1943, the Institute’s goals remain much the same today – serving its membership, encouraging sharing of good practice, expertise, and lessons learned, and bringing in and training the next generation of healthcare engineering and estate management personnel. In earlier days, apprenticeships were a


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common entry route, but today such schemes are considerably fewer in number. The sector nevertheless recognises the need for the establishment of some form of national apprenticeship scheme for healthcare engineers, and indeed this was among the key topics debated at IHEEM’s second roundtable event of 2018 – on apprenticeships – held during June’s Hospital Innovations 2018 event (see pages 32-36) in London. As I write, a new Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has replaced Jeremy Hunt, who has moved to become Foreign Secretary in a Cabinet re-shuffle following the resignation of two prominent Cabinet Ministers, Boris Johnson and David Davis, over disagreements on the UK’s Brexit deal. Interestingly, one of the West Suffolk MP’s noted past achievements, his biography explains, has been championing apprenticeships, and it is to be hoped that, over time, the new Health Secretary will lend his weight on this to that of Lord O’Shaughnessy, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Health, with whom IHEEM already has strong links, and is himself a firm believer in effective succession planning.


Jonathan Baillie I Editor jonathanbaillie@stepcomms.com


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