In a keynote presentation on the second morning of this year’s Healthcare Estates conference, Kim Ormsby (pictured), national corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability manager at NHS Property Services, discussed how, as part of its broader goals of ‘supporting the NHS in delivering clinical services’, and ‘helping to enhance the experience’ of patients visiting its buildings, the organisation would continue to pursue and embed in its activities sustainable policies wherever and whenever possible, encouraging both its staff and tenants to take a similar approach.
In an informative address, she highlighted some of the key steps the property company had already taken to encourage a proactive approach. Echoing the sentiments of Day One keynote speaker, Julian Hartley (see pages 55-60), she argued that one of the fundamentals to success was wide-ranging staff engagement.
Day two of this year’s Healthcare Estates conference in Manchester began with a short welcome address from IHEEM’s new President, Chris Northey, an associate, team leader of ChapmanBDSP’s Public Health Engineering Division, who took on the Institute’s Presidency for the next two years when his predecessor in the role, Greg Markham, officially handed over the chain of office to him at the IHEEM 2014 AGM at Manchester Central the previous evening.
Before introducing the morning’s first keynote speaker, Kim Ormsby, for her presentation on ‘Improving the quality of the patient environment through sustainability’, Chris Northey briefly summarised some of the key themes and messages evident in a wide-ranging conference programme the previous day. Among the most notable had been Greg Markham’s exhortation to senior estates and facilities personnel to make a good business case to their Trust Boards to ensure that key projects were funded, and the clearly strongly held, and equally strongly articulated, belief of Julian Hartley, chief executive of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, that estates and facilities personnel could play a significant role in inspiring other NHS staff to make their own contribution to optimising efficiency and patient safety by contributing through their own day-to-day work. Julian Hartley had also, Chris Northey felt, illustrated how a chief executive who understood the key role of the estates team could lead his or her workforce towards sustainable efficiencies and improvements in quality of patient care.
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