RECENT NEWS

The new BEAMA Water Safety and Hygiene group has now been launched, and incorporates the Thermostatic Mixing Valve Association.

The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) has signed a partnership with The International Institute for Advanced Purchasing & Supply (IIAPS) to develop a new Masters-level qualification for procurement and supply professionals.

BSI has launched the BS 8544 Guide for lifecycle costing of maintenance during the in-use phase of buildings.

NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations from across England assembled in London on 17 October to witness the official launch of NHS Sustainability Day 2014, which IHEEM is supporting, and for which HEJ is the official media partner

Daray manufactures a range of surgical lighting products which use both LED and halogen light sources to cater for surgeons’ varying demands. The SL400 series is one such range available in both lighting formats.

On a mission to understand the life sciences eco-system which exists in Leeds between industry, NHS, and academia, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science, visited medical equipment specialists, Brandon Medical, on 26 September.

IHEEM and Eastwood Park announced at last month’s Healthcare Estates show the launch of a ‘new and refreshed’ Authorising Engineers’ development programme.

Airwave Healthcare is to market in the UK a system that will enable patients that, for instance, due to a stroke, other brain, or spinal injury, have significantly reduced motor function, to access and control television, radio, Internet, and nurse call functions, on an Airwave healthcare touchscreen, simply by looking at part of the screen.

Ole Rist, the IFHE President, has written to the Hospital Engineering Association of Japan (HEAJ) on behalf of the Federation congratulating it on reaching its 60th anniversary.

The IFHE Executive Committee Meeting on 9 September in Malaysia (see also pages 17-19) saw IHEEM’s IFHE representative, and the Digest’s commissioning editor, Andy Wavell, give an update on both the four international issues of HEJ, and progress with the IFHE Digest.

Just prior to the Biomedical Association of Malaysia’s (BEAM) 2013 Hospital Engineering Conference and Exhibition at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Malaysia in September this year, the IFHE held meetings of both its Executive Committee and Council.

The chairman of IHEEM’s Ventilation Technical Platform, Richard Knight, CEng. MCIBSE, MIHEEM, has appealed for existing and new readers of HEJ and IHEEM members with a strong interest in healthcare ventilation to join.

During September, IHEEM presented symposia in Hong Kong and Singapore, and the President, Greg Markham, and CEO, Julian Amey, participated in the IFHE Council meeting and BEAM (Biomedical Engineering Association of Malaysia) Conference & Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Well over 400 guests attended the annual IHEEM Awards Dinner at the Manchester Midland Hotel, a stone’s throw from Manchester Central, on the evening of the first day of Healthcare Estates 2013.

The Government and Construction Leadership Council will unveil its plans for the future of the UK construction industry at Talk Construction, a conference that the organisers describe as ‘a landmark event’, to be held on 25 and 26 November this year at London’s Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster in front of more than 500 delegates.

IHEEM and specialist healthcare training provider, Eastwood Park, announced at last month’s Healthcare Estates show the launch of a ‘new and refreshed’ Authorising Engineers’ development programme.

The Government is ‘in serious danger of killing off the air conditioning inspection regime’, claims Bob Towse, head of technical and safety at the Building & Engineering Services Association (B&ES).

Lighting in the NHS is often over five years’ old, on 24 hours a day, and based on inefficient technology. However, now LEDs and smart controls can deliver dramatic energy savings – while improving the environment for staff and patients alike.’

NHS Trusts and healthcare organisations from across England assembled in London on 17 October to witness the official launch of NHS Sustainability Day 2014, which IHEEM is supporting, and for which Health Estate Journal is the official media partner.

The last general survey of the IHEEM membership took place in summer 2008, and went some way to setting the Institute’s strategy for the period since that time, the Institute’s recruitment and membership manager, Chris Parker, reports.