Recognising achievement on a night to remember

As guests sat down they heard a rousing vocal performance of several ‘classics’ from community choir, ‘Do Your Thing’, while the after-dinner speaker was former Liverpool FC midfielder, Jan Mølby, who, having captained his home team in Denmark aged 19, was recruited by the Merseyside Club in 1984, and went on to enjoy a highly successful football career in England, both as a player and a manager. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports. 

The Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards 2018 dinner, ‘celebrating excellence and achievement in healthcare’, took place again this year in the International Suite at the Manchester Mercure Hotel on the evening of 9 October, the first day of Healthcare Estates 2018. Following an opening drinks reception, guests were seated to the accompaniment of classics such as ‘Bridge over troubled water’, enthusiastically sung by Stockport and Stalybridge-based choir, ‘Do Your Thing’. Master of Ceremonies, Andy Powell, then welcomed all present, and announced that the night’s raffle collection (which raised £3,040), would go to IHEEM’s 2018 charity of the year, the Portsmouth Hospitals Charity, based at the city’s Queen Alexandra Hospital. Victoria Greenshields, the charity’s Fundraising Manager, explained to guests that the charity only funds projects and services that are ‘above and beyond’ the NHS, and ‘have a direct patient benefit that makes patients’ stay in hospital a little easier, and more comfortable’.

Children’s Bubbles Fund