June’s Hospital Innovations 2018 event saw the year’s second IHEEM roundtable focus on NHS apprenticeships, with a particular emphasis on ongoing work to establish a national engineering apprenticeship for healthcare engineers
On taking up the IHEEM Presidency just under two years ago, Pete Sellars set out five key areas on which he promised to focus during his tenure – among them being to champion bringing new talent into a sector which, like much of UK engineering, is currently experiencing serious skills shortages. In line with this goal, June’s Hospital Innovations 2018 event saw the year’s second IHEEM roundtable to date focus on NHS apprenticeships, with a particular emphasis on ongoing work by NHSI, in conjunction with the professional institutes, to establish a national engineering apprenticeship for healthcare engineers. In this issue, HEJ reports on the first half of the discussion, while September’s edition will cover the second.
Entitled ‘Developing NHS Apprenticeships’, this second IHEEM roundtable in the Institute’s 75th Anniversary Year took place on the afternoon of the one-day Hospital Innovations 2018 event, held at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health at University College London. The proceedings were chaired by Pete Sellars. The other participants were:
Setting the scene
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