Visitors to the Health Estate Journal (note new telephone number: 01892 779999) and Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) stand will be able to learn more about how to register for a digitised copy of the magazine each month – a recent innovation, which also offers online advertisers the opportunity to direct site visitors back to their own website.
Institute staff will be on hand to explain the benefits of joining IHEEM, and to give the latest news on the conference at this October’s Healthcare Estates event, while visitors can also get details on exhibiting at, or visiting, the flagship IHEEM show, which is now in its third year in Manchester. Published 10 times a year, HEJ aims to provide unrivalled coverage of the most important issues facing engineering, estates, and facilities management personnel. From carbon footprint reduction to providing a clean, safe, and comfortable care environment, and from evidence-based design to the latest thinking on infection control, HEJ is an unrivalled source of topical information. Recent subjects covered have ranged from hospital architecture, new approaches to mental healthcare facility design, and addressing ‘flaws’ in existing NHS risk guidance, to the pros and cons of PFI and outsourced estates management. Thrown into the mix have been ensuring continuity and resilience, the pros and cons of LED lighting, how an improved A&E environment can help reduce aggression towards staff, how estates teams can best address the myriad of engineering and maintenance challenges they face with less funding, the challenges for those responsible for ensuring that surgical instruments are clean, safe, and fit-for-purpose, and how to protect hospital water systems against waterborne disease. Copies of HEJ will be available on the stand, where visitors can meet the journal team to discuss editorial or advertising opportunities. Also published by Step Communications, and sent to all IHEEM members, is the International Federation of Hospital Engineering’s (IFHE) Annual Digest, an authoritative publication showcasing some of the best global thinking on all aspects of running a more efficient and patient-centric healthcare estate. The Digest contains articles from estates and facilities management associations worldwide, as well as from academics, engineers, and expert commentators.
