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IHEEM members (quoting “IHEEM10” when booking) can get a 10% discount on the “Delivering Future Healthcare Estates” conference at Grange St Pauls, 10, Godliman Street, London on 18 June.

Awards for best facilities management service, best estates service, and for the best sustainable estates strategies in both acute and primary care settings, will be among those presented at the 2009 Building Better Healthcare (BBH) Awards, for which entries close on 30 June.

The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, the flagship of the £500 million Central Manchester Hospitals (PFI) investment, has been handed over, on time and on budget.

The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency has launched a new government-wide national framework agreement for signage solutions it estimates will provide the NHS with cost savings of at least 10% against previous agreements.

THE transformation of hospital wards has begun as the first stage of a £34 million scheme to centralise children’s hospital services at Leeds General Infirmary and adult acute medicine and older people’s services at the city’s St James’s University Hospital.

IHEEM would like to congratulate the following, who had Institute grades awarded recently:

High-level estates personnel from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland discussed some of the key challenges facing healthcare estates teams at a seminar, “The top five issues from a national perspective”, staged before the 2009 IHEEM AGM in London. Jonathan Baillie reports.

The President, Mr Rob Smith, presided. There were 21 members present. The meeting opened with the President welcoming the members to the meeting and calling on the CEO to read the Notice of the AGM.

IHEEM is to create a series of Technology Platforms which will act as a focus group on technology matters, create policy on technology issues, advise the Institute’s Council and guide members on significant issues arising, and manage technical responses and activities.

BAM Construction has appointed NG Bailey, one of the UK’s largest building services providers, to deliver all mechanical, electrical and ICT services for Great Ormond Street Hospital’s new clinical building. The £37.5 million contract will see it install and commission all mechanical and electrical services, working alongside its specialist off-site division, Bailey Off-Site, to manufacture 110 prefabricated corridor modules and electrical risers.

A technical seminar on sustainability staged by IHEEM’s Yorkshire branch was among the first showcasing opportunities for the Bradford Royal Infirmary’s new Sovereign Lecture Theatre (pictured).

We continue to be the preferred method of procurement for publically funded schemes and we have gained a considerable amount of new NHS Clients with it.

Focused FM provides software, information and management support services to healthcare professionals working in facilities, estates and related functions.

Schneider Electric highlighted the specialist support and advice it can offer the healthcare sector at this year’s HEFMA event.

As vistors to our stand will know, Topscan’s services provide Directors of Estates and Facilities with instant access to accurate, up-to-date support information, which can be in the form of CAD building footprints or a building services documentation digital database.

Parkhill would like to thank all HEFMA delegates who visited our stand this year. We were thrilled with the response we received to our fresh brand identity and hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did!

The Wandsworth Group has been at the forefront of communications technology within the healthcare sector for over 50 years and has equipment installed in over 300 hospitals in the UK and abroad.

The Drax survey system makes creating, implementing and reporting on surveys easier than ever before.

Dalkia showcased the latest cost effective solutions to facilities, energy and estates services at Hefma 2009.

The leading supplier of CAFM software to the NHS has announced the launch of a series of White Papers aimed to help Facilities Managers survive the economic downturn.