RECENT NEWS

A large congregation of family and friends attended a recent memorial service for Ron Eunson at Morningside Baptist Church, Edinburgh. Ron Eunson had been a member of IHEEM since 1983, and a Registered Authorised Person (Sterilisers) since 1994.

IHEEM’s Welsh branch held its AGM on 26 February at the offices of Welsh Health Estates in Cardiff, with the evening beginning with an informative presentation by Anthony Pitcher, senior fire safety advisor, Welsh Health Estates, on fire sprinkler systems in healthcare premises.

Sales and marketing director at bedhead services specialist Static Systems Phil Wade and the company’s business development director Chris Turner recently turned in what the duo claim was “a great performance” at the home of Premiership football club Aston Villa.

Specialist NHS recruitment consultancy Fine Green Associates has been awarded Company Affiliate membership of IHEEM.

Sonnemann Toon Architects has completed a “fast-track” five-month £1 m refurbishment of the St. Mary’s Hospital outpatients department in Paddington, London. The main contractor was Progress Properties.

An overview of how forthcoming environmental legislation will impact on the healthcare estate function over the next 2-3 years, an examination of NHS sustainability policy, and a look at thermal modelling’s use to simulate the dynamic thermal performance of buildings, will be among highlights of an Environment and Sustainability event being held by IHEEM’s Yorkshire branch on 22 April.

Come and see us on Stand F16 where we will be happy to discuss the latest developments in Automatic Washroom Technology.

BioCote®, the leading brand for silver antimicrobial product protection, will be exhibiting on stand D6 at Healthcare Ireland 2009.

Wandsworth Group will be displaying IPiN Nurse Call along with Tele-Call Digital Bedside computing & Patient entertainment system and Safecall wireless nurse call.

Focused FM provides software, information and management support services to healthcare professionals working in facilities, estates and related functions.

Our client base spans across the industrial, commercial, educational, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and hospitality industries. Indeed Derrycourt is the main cleaning contract for the HSE in Dublin and its surrounding areas.

Don't miss Spirax Sarco at the Healthcare Ireland exhibition, from April 1st to 2nd. Our extensive knowledge of steam and its control simplifies and accelerates the specification, purchasing and installation of heating, hot water and clean steam services for healthcare facilities of all sizes.

Centriq provide class leading healthcare IT Infrastructure Solutions, IT Support Services and Consultancy.

BOC Medical are once again delighted to be attending the Healthcare Ireland Conference & Exhibition in the RDS Dublin on the 1st & 2nd April 2009.

Komfort’s Health & Cleanroom Division manufactures the CX modular wall and doorset system which is a totally flexible and fully relocatable bi-panel partition.

Featured at this years Healthcare Ireland Exhibition is Thomas Montgomery’s latest range of Healthcare Furniture – Ultracare +

A new corporate (Affiliate) category of Institute membership now open to all NHS Trusts offers both an opportunity for more Trust staff to take advantage of the broad range of benefits available to IHEEM members, plus an additional 5% subscription discount for all members employed by the Trust taking up the membership.

With training budgets being tightened across the board, and employers in the health estate and facilities sector looking especially carefully at which training courses most merit their employees’ attendance, IHEEM is putting together a scheme that will see industry-offered training courses that meet its strict criteria Institute-approved for their Continual Professional Development content (CPD).

IHEEM is seeking members’ views, by the end of this month, on a range of designs for new Institute ties and ladies’ scarves. As a way to promote the Institute, the Membership Committee has decided to sponsor the production of a new range of ties for gentlemen and scarves for lady members.

A recent new IHEEM member who, having only joined last autumn, says he is already “highly impressed with what the Institute has to offer” and would recommend suitably qualified individuals get in touch to find out how they can benefit from membership, is estates engineering officer at the Luton & Dunstable NHS Trust Pat McDermott.