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Eastwood Park continues to lead the way in delivering certificated, specialist heating and ventilation training tailored for healthcare estates professionals. Set within a 200-acre Gloucestershire estate, Eastwood Park’s purpose-built training centre offers one of the UK’s most comprehensive HVAC training facilities.

Immersive practical training facilities have become the foundational bedrock of healthcare estate engineering. Gemma Bolton, marketing executive at PPL Training, explains why instilling the requisite competence and cognitive confidence is necessary to safeguard both the infrastructure and the professional integrity of the certified individual.

Three academics report on research, sponsored by the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, to identify how knowledge priorities vary among NHS EFM staff across organisational levels

Following IHEEM’s work to strengthen and promote the role and importance of professional development and independent AEs across all its specialist engineering platforms, members highlighted the urgent need to actively support the development of AP and CPs. IHEEM’s Decontamination Technical Platform is now piloting a programme in Wales aimed at directly supporting such personnel. John Prendergast, an IHEEMregistered AE(D) leading the pilot, discusses the wider issue of engineering governance in healthcare facilities, and ongoing work to ensure that engineers at all levels are competent.