Healthcare Estates
Plenty to talk about in Manchester
HEJ reports on next month’s Healthcare Estates 2013 conference and exhibition in Manchester, focusing on some of the key topics set to be discussed throughout a packed two-day programme at this year’s flagship IHEEM annual event, and highlights some of the main show features.
When Healthcare Estates 2013 opens its doors to visitors in Manchester next month (the event is being held from 8-9 October at Manchester Central), the radical new procurement blueprint unveiled early last month by Health Minister, Dr Dan Poulter, for how the NHS buys and funds everything from rubber gloves and stitches, to building work and temporary staff, will be among the major talking points. The new ‘Procurement Development
Programme for the NHS: Better Procurement, Better Value, Better Care’, published on 5 August (see also page 11), encourages NHS hospitals to radically change the way they buy supplies, goods, and services, as well as how they manage their estates, the goal being to ‘find’ over £1.5 billion in procurement efficiencies over the next three years.
Leveraging NHS buying power Interestingly, one of the keynote speakers on Day One of this year’s conference, (see pages 88-89 for the full programme), is John Nangle, Crown Commercial Lead for Energy at the Cabinet office. He will be ‘outlining a vision’ of how the NHS might integrate the supply of gas and electricity sourced under a centralised supply framework, operated by the likes of the Government Procurement Service or TEC, with energy-saving solutions and programmes developed by organisations such as the Carbon and Energy Fund How estates and facilities teams UK-
wide can continue to find the savings required by the Government and the Exchequer, while also ensuring that hospitals, care homes, and other healthcare facilities, continue to have a ‘clean, safe, and suitable’ treatment environment, will indeed be a theme reflected in many of the presentations, seminars, workshops, and other events, being staged throughout the two-day show.
Manchester Central, centrally located at the heart of the city, is again the venue for the Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition.
Wide-ranging topics Topics covered will thus range from how to make energy savings, cut utility bills, and maximise the performance and efficiency of building engineering services and plant, to new benchmarks for design and construction, plus examples of ‘smarter estates’, efficient lighting, infection prevention, and property and premises management.
Setting the scene Event director, SteveWebb, said: “Our opening conference plenaries on day 1 and day 2 will set the scene for the changes required in the healthcare sector to ensure that patients continue to be cared for in fit-for-purpose environments, but against a backdrop where, with an ageing demographic, demand for healthcare is set to increase, and cost savings will become ever-more important in making the optimal use of scarce financial resources.” Alongside John Nangle, another keynote speaker will be David Flory, the Chief
Executive of the NHS Trust Development Authority, who will highlight ‘The priorities going forward for estates and facilities departments’.
An Indian perspective On the conference’s second day the opening plenaries will begin with an address by Dr R Chandrashekhar, Chief Architect at India’s Ministry of Health and FamilyWelfare, giving an Indian perspective on ‘Performance and productivity improvements in healthcare’, and focusing particularly on a massive programme of healthcare construction and refurbishment set to take place over the next few years, among whose goals is to address the significant inequalities in healthcare provision in different parts of this vast country. In the keynote that follows, Peter Sellars,
head of profession at the NHS Estates and Facilities Policy Division at the Department of Health, will bring matters back closer to home in a presentation entitled ‘Estates
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