President outlines his role in delivering IHEEM ‘vision’

Ian Hinitt gave his President’s Address as part of an IHEEM seminar, titled ‘NHS Engineering & Estates: A vision to 2030’, held on 14 November last year at the Broadway House conference centre in London’s Tothill Street. After his presentation, which concluded the seminar, guests walked the short distance to the Cholmondeley Room and Terrace overlooking the River Thames at the House of Lords – the setting for a threecourse lunch and the presentation by IHEEM Honorary Patron, Lord Carter, of the 2019 award established in his honour (see report on pages 51-54).

Ian Hinitt began his seminar presentation, in the Westminster Suite at Broadway House, by explaining that in delivering his inaugural address in 2018, he had set out his plans for his two-year Presidential term in supporting the IHEEM Strategy – ‘Our vision to 2021’. The Institute was now in the fifth year of the Strategy, which is based around the following ‘Five Key Themes’: 

The IHEEM President explained that, having reflected on the ‘Five Key Themes’ at his inauguration, he had decided to focus, during his Presidency, on two specific areas for IHEEM’s membership – ‘Diversity & Inclusion’, and ‘Training and Education’ of the profession’s future workforce. Before reflecting on the past year’s progress, however, he was keen to reflect on the success of Healthcare Estates 2019, in October in Manchester, as well as on IHEEM’s ‘strong financial position’, and on its ‘evolving business capability and capacity’.