IHEEM Annual Conference at

Healthcare Estates

“The Quality Patient Environment – Maintaining the Momentum”

Harrogate International Centre

 

The theme of this year’s IHEEM Annual Conference at Healthcare Estates goes right to the heart of the challenges ahead.  It’s your chance to see how your individual role and those of your fellow professionals, fit together and contribute to the overall effort. Because it’s only through a truly collaborative approach that we can sustain the rate of change, ensure our objectives are consistent, and get the most from our combined knowledge and resources.

 

This year’s content is arranged in four streams, each addressing a specific aspect of the patient environment by leading national and international speakers.  The four streams are; Patient Safety, Design & Construction, Estate & Premises Management and Energy & Sustainability. The IHEEM Annual Conference isn’t a dry, academic exercise, where you’ll simply be lectured to.  It’s an open forum, where real dialogue and debate are encouraged, and where real progress can be made.  It is this openness and inclusiveness that’s made the IHEEM Annual Conference the biggest and most influential event of its kind in the UK.

 

Whilst the Conference is a major motivation where we discuss the ‘who’, ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘why’, the Exhibition at Healthcare Estates deals with the ‘how’, offering every attendee the opportunity to take away more than just ideas, knowledge or a renewed enthusiasm for the challenges ahead.  If you are interested in attending the exhibition as a day visitor and/or would like to find out more about opportunities to exhibit, please click here.

 

Our annual conference dinner will be held on Tuesday 27 October at 19.15 in the Harrogate International Centre and is open to all delegates, exhibitors and their guests.  It is an excellent opportunity to network with other delegates and exhibitors, and continue discussing the day’s topics in a more relaxed environment.  Tickets are sold quickly for this popular event, so make sure you book early to avoid disappointment.

 

Benefits of attending:

·         Discover and discuss the very latest ideas, information and policy shaping our professions

·         Meet colleagues, make contacts, find answers during the day and at the popular Conference Dinner

·         Join in the debate on technical, professional, financial and quality-related issues

·         Understand the policy, legislation and practical issues affecting your facility, now and in the future

·         Explore new topics, and share ideas and experiences with colleagues in other specialist areas, through the streamed content and interdisciplinary approach

·         Find practical solutions to real-world problems, from people like you.

 

For further information and to see the full list of sessions available, please click here.  To make the most of the special early bird booking rate and ensure your place at this year’s conference, click here to book online.

 

Do visit our website regularly for up to date news about this year’s conference.

To be held on 13th - 15th October 2009 at University of Warwick - (Briefing Day 15th September 2009, London)

 

 

Management development is difficult to measure, especially if you do not take any readings before development starts. For the same reason you are equally unable to tell whether, when or even where you might have arrived!

Management development is surely too important to be treated in this casual manner. Organisations are desperately trying to improve management capacity and individual capability and a key requirement is to collect meaningful baseline information before embarking on further developmental journeys.

The Development Centre programme offers the opportunity for individuals to evaluate themselves against a series of management competencies and identify their strengths and development needs. The Centre provides a “safe environment” with its success enhanced by an objective, criteria-based process.

 

Designed for aspiring directors and senior managers, the Development Centre Programme supports the national Facilities Management Workforce Strategy.The Programme is approved, and supported, by the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management (IHEEM) and the Health Facilities Management Association (HeFMA).

 

Over a briefing day and a 2 day residential stay the Development Centre Programme enables you to demonstrate your skills, behaviours and attitudes within different activities and situations.

The use of psychometric instruments, case studies, presentations, discussions and interviews, offer the opportunity for you to be yourself and provide evidence to demonstrate your degree of competence against agreed criteria.

At the end of the Centre you will have a ‘facilitator’ (drawn from the Observer Team) who will provide personal and objective feedback to help in the preparation of your Personal Development Plan.

 

The Development Centre Programme enables you to review your existing competencies against the defined competency profiles for:

•          Strategic Management

•           Managing People

•          Achieving Goals

•          Managing Relationships

•          Communication

•          Personal Style

 Knowledge Management

 

For further details please click here:

Healthcare and sustainability are directly linked. Reducing carbon emissions will enable the NHS to save money, meet regulations and improve public health. Ensure you benefit from the advantages of reducing carbon in your Trust.

Not only will reducing emissions ensure you meet the Government and European regulations, but when effectively implemented, carbon reduction schemes also have a positive impact on public health and help save money that can be reinvested into patient care. With the release of the Carbon Reduction

Strategy, sustainability is high on the NHS agenda. At this time of development, HealthService Journal is proud to present this essential event that brings together the key players and provides practical guidance to tackle the challenges that you face locally. This conference will empower you to:

 

 Put together an effective carbon reducing

strategy for your Trust

Gain board level support for carbon

reduction programmes and ensure

sustainability is embedded into every role

Procure and contract sustainably -

understand and take the steps needed to

reduce the carbon emissions related to

the procurement of pharmaceuticals and

equipment that the NHS uses

Measure your current carbon footprint and

understand how to benchmark progress and

identify areas for improvement

Understand funding options available to the

NHS for investing in carbon management

and energy saving programmes

 

Who should attend?

In order to achieve a low carbon, sustainable NHS, everyone in the NHS must play a part in reducing carbon emissions. Senior executives, performance managers, estates and facilities professionals, commissioners and procurement leads, and anyone that partners with the NHS will benefit from the guidance at this important national forum.

 

For further information and a registration form please click here;

On Thursday 25^thJune 2009 IHEEM Welsh Branch and Welsh Health Estates will host a One Day Seminar on Data Centres and Comms Rooms, the Engine Rooms of today's Economy.

 

This will be of interest to those involved in IT and Data handling as well as hospital Estates Officers

 

Guest Speaker for the day is Barry Elliott BSc, MBA, C.Eng MIET, MCIBSEof Capitoline.

Barry has over 20 years experience in communications and has spent the last four years as a specialist in Data Centre design

 

This seminar will focus on four major elements:

The Data Centre Environment, Cooling the Data Centre, Power and Cabling

 

The Seminarwill commence at 9.30am for a 10.00am start.

To be held at Post Graduate Lecture Theatre, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Ynysmaerdy, Llantrisant, CF72 8XR. The lecture theatre is accessed from the main hospital entrance.

 

Buffet lunch and refreshments will be avalible.

 

Places are limited, To register your place on seminar contact:

Mrs Ann Konsbruck, Welsh Health Estates using the attached booking form.

 

For further details please contact Nigel Porter, Welsh Health Estates, 02920315547 or Nigel.Porter@whe.wales.nhs.uk

 

Click to download Pdf for details

 

Click for Booking form in a word document

With schemes ranging from building hospitals to community care projects, plus a variety of procurement routes and frameworks to navigate amidst fierce competition, it is imperative the companies getting involved, are armed with the right skills and sector knowledge to win work in this lucrative market. This one-day conference will help architects, construction managers, project managers and healthcare designers to fully understand the process and requirements for healthcare new-build and refurbishment, whilst providing unassailable networking opportunities between peers, suppliers and clients.

 

Including speakers from: Willmott Dixon, MLM Building Control, CABE, Laing O’Rourke and Arup

 

IHEEM subscribers will receive a 10% discount on full conference price. Quote IHEEM10 to claim.

 

To register:

Call: 020 7921 8039

Email: conferences@ubm.com

Visit: www.buildingconferences.com/healthcare

23rd and 24th April 2009

Hilton Hotel

Cardiff

 

IHEEM Welsh Branch and Welsh Health Estates are pleased to annnounce the date of the 2009 Conference and Exhibition.

 

Following the success of the 2008 Conference it will once again take place at the Hilton Hotel in Cardiff on Thursday and Friday, 23rd and 24th April 2009.

 

A number of high profile speakers will be sharing their views on the latest issues affecting the NHS in Wales and the healthcare Estate in particular.

 

Further details will be announced on the website as soon as they become available.

 

For exhibitor enquiries contact Nigel Porter, Principal Electrical Engineer. Tel:02920 315547 or email nigel.porter@whe.wales.nhs.uk

 

For all other enquiries contact Ann Konsbruck, Event manager Tel 02920315512 or email ann.konsbruck@whe.wales.nhs.uk

 

The Congress will be held on 2nd-3rd April 2009. In Goes a city in the Province of Zeeland, The Netherlands.

 

The central theme of the congress is innovation focusing on the specific areas of real estates, technology and management. The Journal of Constructing for Cure and Care will be introduced during the Congress.

 

There will be the usual commercial exhibition. This year approximately 85 companies will participate.

 

A festive evening will be held for delegates and their partners of first evening of the congress which will include performances from a range of artists.

 

For more information and registration details please follow this link:

With schemes ranging from building hospitals to community care projects, plus a variety of procurement routes and frameworks to navigate amidst fierce competition, it is imperative the companies getting involved, are armed with the right skills and sector knowledge to win work in this lucrative market. This one-day conference will help architects, construction managers, project managers and healthcare designers to fully understand the process and requirements for healthcare new-build and refurbishment, whilst providing unassailable networking opportunities between peers, suppliers and clients.

 

Including speakers from: Willmott Dixon, MLM Building Control, CABE, Laing O’Rourke and Arup

 

IHEEM subscribers will receive a 10% discount on full conference price. Quote IHEEM10 to claim.

 

To register:

Call: 020 7921 8039

Email: conferences@ubm.com

Visit: www.buildingconferences.com/healthcare

One day conference organised by the ILE March 17, 2009, at the Barbican Centre in London

 

To book please visit www.ile.org.uk/health

 

Modern medical science now recognises that light has a critical impact on human biology and an important relationship with a range of health related issues.

 

Findings show that the present or absence of daylight in buildings and the design of artificial lighting can have a huge impact on human performance, health and psychological well-being – and this presents an enormous challenge for architects and lighting designers.

 

Join us to:

Hear from experts in this field including a keynote speech from Prof. Josephine

Arendt, Founder of the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Surrey

Learn some of the innovative ways that interior lighting for hospitals, schools,

offices and public buildings could be transformed to create healthy and life enhancing environments

Exchange ideas, ask questions, and

discover the implications for the future

 

Who should attend?

·      Lighting designers

·      Lighting engineers

·      Architects

·      Interior designers

·      Construction professionals

·      Researchers

·      Academics

·      Theorists

·      Health professionals

·      Education specialists

Facilities managers

 

 

 Contact

 Call: 01788 576492

 Web: www.ile.org.uk

 Post: ILE, Regent House, Regent Place,   Rugby CV21 2PN

 

 For further information please  follow this link;

 

 

 

Health Service Journal is proud to present Rebuilding the NHS. This annual forum equips you with the tools and strategies you need, to provide patient-focused healthcare environments that offer strong foundations for service transformation and improvement. Join your colleagues and partners at this unique annual forum to discover how your peers are working:

l Discover the outcomes of their public/private partnerships

l Understand the direction they have taken for polyclinics

l Determine how they are embedding sustainability at the core of building design and management, in both old and new builds

This unique annual forum brings wider NHS strategy and requirements into focus for estates and facilities specialists. It is an essential knowledge building and networking day for Directors of Estates or Facilities, Directors of Finance, Capital Projects Managers, Directors of Provider Services, Directors of Commissioning, Architects and Engineers.

For more details click here.

The Big Bang is the UK’s first national fair celebrating young people’s achievements in science and engineering. It will take place from the 4th to 6th March 2009, just prior to National Science and Engineering Week, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London. The Fair will be a focal point for the efforts of the science and engineering community to excite and stimulate young people, especially those who have never considered a career in the sector before. The Big Bang will both celebrate science and engineering talent in the UK and ensure this talent is nurtured for the future. Over three days, nearly nine thousand young people; teachers; representatives from science and engineering organisations and employers; government ministers; members of parliament; and peers will witness the UK’s biggest and boldest celebration of UK science and engineering.  The Fair is supported by Government, business and industry and organisations from across the science, technology, engineering and maths community.

 

 

For more information on The Big Bang visithttp://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk

 

A consultation event on the Draft BS 8550 Guide to auditing of water sampling is being held on Wednesday 4th March 2009 at The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), 14-15 Belgrave Square, London. 

 

The UK’s inaugural Young Scientists and Engineers Fair is to take place in March 2009.  This high-profile landmark three day event is targeted at young people and their teachers to celebrate and raise awareness of science and engineering, their role in society and the diversity of career opportunities available.  The fair will provide a national platform to showcase young people’s science and engineering projects, announce and celebrate the results of several national science and engineering competitions and provide a suite of activities to engage young people  in science, engineering, technology and maths with six floors of inspiring shows, exhibitions, demonstrations and workshops.

 

Through the events at the Fair, young people will discover the huge range of opportunities that exist for those with science and engineering qualifications in the UK.

 

The fair is timed to take place just prior to the National Science and Engineering Week that runs from 6^th to 15^th March 2009.   

 

IHEEM supports both of these events.  For further information please contact the IHEEM Events Manager, Nicki Oliver at: Nicola.Oliver@iheem.org.uk

Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality Assurance (PTQA)

University of Leeds

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Short Courses – 2009

 

 

Medical Gases for Service Managers

• A one-day course describing the responsibilities, risks, management and provision of medical gas services for senior pharmacists and healthcare service managers.
• Medical Gas Pipeline Systems and Cylinder supplies are described and the role and duties of service managers are discussed
• What non-specialist managers need to know about medical gases

 

Date:

Thursday 19 February 2009

 

Venue:

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sandford Education Centre

 

 

 

Aseptic Services for Managers (ASFM)

 

• A follow-up course to the APDM for senior, experienced pharmacy staff involved in aseptic preparation activities

The course aims to address key current issues in aseptic preparation services, and to equip Aseptic Unit Managers to respond to them.

 

Date:

Monday 11 – Tuesday 12 May 2009

 

Venue: Village Hotel, Leeds

 

Aseptic Preparation & Dispensing of Medicines (APDM)

 

• This residential course has been organised jointly by the NHS and the University of Leeds to meet the needs of pharmacy staff (pharmacists and experienced senior technicians) who are engaged in the aseptic processing of medicines
• The course will cover the principles and practice of asepsis and provide an update on standards, practices and quality issues

 

Date:

Monday 6 – Thursday 9 July 2009

 

Venue:

Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds

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