The organisers of this month’s HefmA 2014 annual conference and exhibition promise delegates “the opportunity to hear international perspectives on the current issues facing the worldwide ‘family’ of health estates and facilities professionals”.
Conference speakers will include a US-based consultant architect discussing ‘a transformational change programme which has achieved up to threefold greater throughput using the existing footprint in a US Emergency Department’; the assistant director, Facilities Services, at Health Facilities Scotland, focusing on HFS’s work to ensure high training standards and succession planning, former BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie, describing some of the ‘extraordinary experiences’ of an eventful career, and Will Whitehorn, a former search-andrescue helicopter crewman, who later became president of ‘the world’s first commercial spaceline’, Virgin Galactic, giving his view on technology’s impact in business. HEJ reports.
The HefmA (Health Estates & Facilities Management Association) 2014 conference, exhibition, dinner, and awards ceremony, will be held at Brighton’s Hilton Metropole Hotel from 14-16 May and, in line with the Association’s goal of providing delegates with the chance to hear about some of the challenges facing the healthcare estates community internationally, will be themed ‘Hand across the water’. HefmA says: “This year’s theme reflects the fact that many of the problems facing our overseas colleagues are all too familiar to us here in the UK. By exploring the structure and management systems other countries have put in place, the hope is that we can see how a different approach might help to reform and improve our own services.”
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