The considerable contributions made by estates and facilities personnel to maintaining the essential services that keep UK healthcare facilities running, and to providing a high quality care and treatment environment, alongside their efforts in promoting the sector more widely and helping fellow professionals advance their career, were recognised at the IHEEM Annual Dinner at the recent Healthcare Estates event.
An awards ceremony recognising individual achievement was hosted by former BBC Tomorrow’s World presenter Kate Bellingham.
TV and radio presenter Kate Bellingham, one of the former presenters on the BBC’s popular science programme, Tomorrow’s World, in the early 1990s, opened the awards presentation by highlighting the “often unnoticed achievements” of healthcare engineers and EFM personnel, and stressing the awards’ important role in recognising “the hard work behind the scenes” at healthcare facilities UK-wide. Collecting the Lifetime Achievement Award from IHEEM’s current president Rob Smith was Lawrence Turner OBE, a former IHEEM president, and the founder of specialist bedhead services and nurse call system supplier Static Systems, who was rewarded for his “commitment to, and ongoing support for, IHEEM over a period of almost 40 years”. Presented annually, the Lifetime Achievement Award recognises an IHEEM member who has “given long service to the healthcare industry”, either within the NHS or private sector, and has “made a significant contribution to their specialist field”. Described as “a most worthy nominee”, Lawrence Turner is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineering, and, in addition to being an IHEEM Fellow and past president, a past master of The Worshipful Company of Engineers and former non-executive director of a healthcare Trust. Although “well past normal retirement age”, he retains an ongoing interest in IHEEM affairs, has been a key figure in encouraging the development of an effective role for past presidents, and has, for some years, “provided an excellent venue for the annual past presidents’ meeting and luncheon”.
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