As the new NHS landscape’s structures, policies, and future strategic direction, begin to come more into focus, and the hiatus caused by the Health and Social Care Act’s passage through the various parliamentary stages to become law, begins to quieten, ‘surviving and thriving in this emerging new world’ will be a major theme underpinning next month’s IHEEM Healthcare Estates 2012 annual conference and exhibition in Manchester.
HEJ reports on some of the major conference and exhibition highlights as, behind the structural changes, the fundamental challenges facing healthcare estates personnel – improving patient care and outcomes, driving efficiencies and innovation, cutting costs, and coping with rising patient demand – remain the same.
“For the estates community, and the supply chain that works with it, there is undoubtedly a need for clarity on the role of estates professionals within provider NHS Trusts, and equally on that of the new NHS Property Services body, not only in terms of ongoing operational efficiency, but also in the radical re-shaping of future healthcare assets as the overall healthcare estate’s footprint contracts, and community services grow.” So says the organiser of this year’s Healthcare Estates conference, i2i Events Group. These ‘key strategic issues’ will be explored through the conference’s plenary content. The opening sessions on the conference’s first day, on the impact of the Health and Social Care Act, will include presentations by NHS Greater Manchester Chief Executive, Mike Burrows; Department of Health head of profession at the NHS Estates and Facilities Policy Division, Peter Sellars; University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust director of Estates and Facilities, Trevor Payne, and IHEEM President, and North West London Hospital NHS Trust and Ealing Hospital NHS Trust director of Estates and Facilities, Paul Kingsmore. The afternoon plenaries on day one, meanwhile, will focus on the future of healthcare design, and feature insight from experts such as Alastair Gourlay, programme director at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust; Sarah, Waller, programme director, Enhancing the Healing Environment, The King’s Fund; John Cole, director of Estates in Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, and John Cooper, chair of Architects for Health.
‘New models’ for estates development
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