Mica Moore, a Business Support manager at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, who last year spent four weeks working in hospitals in Greece as part of a European exchange programme that offers healthcare professionals the chance to share learnings and experiences, outlines some of the key benefits. Most recently, she explains, two overseas healthcare professionals – from Poland and Spain, were hosted under the programme by Vital Services, a wholly owned Trust subsidiary for which she works.
Vital Services (VS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust (BWC), was once again honoured to participate in the HOPE (Hospitals of the European Union) Exchange Programme this year, for the second year running. We welcomed two professionals for a four- week placement during May. The HOPE Programme is a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals across Europe to share experiences, learn from each other's systems, and foster cross-border innovation and improvement in patient care, infrastructure, and leadership.
Vital Services' Estates Department remains the UK's only estates department to host participants within both Estates and Medical Engineering — offering an unmatched insight into how non-clinical services underpin and enable the safe and effective delivery of outstanding patient care. This approach not only showcases the expertise and complexity involved in maintaining modern healthcare facilities, but also reinforces the importance of technical services in the wider healthcare ecosystem.
This year, we proudly hosted Dawid Budny, Deputy director for Administrative & Technical Staff at Bieganski Regional Hospital in Poland, and Mercedes Perez Andres, Occupational Health & Safety coordinator and qualified Industrial Engineer from the Murcia Health Service in Spain. Over the course of their placement, they were fully embedded within our Estates teams, and had the opportunity to experience first-hand the complexities, challenges, and innovation, involved in maintaining and improving the hospital environment.
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