Healthcare Estates is just one week away!

The theme of this year’s IHEEM Healthcare Estates event is ‘Mind the Gap: Are We Heading Towards a Two-Tier Estate?’, focusing on the operational challenges of managing the legacy NHS estate and multi-billion-pound maintenance backlogs.

Much of the NHS estate was built for a different era, and the risks are often hidden in the fabric of the building:

– Ageing pipework, dead legs and oversized tanks within the water system create ideal conditions for Legionella and Pseudomonas
– Tired air ventilation systems struggle to meet today’s standards
– Asbestos is still present in many pre-2000 buildings and gets disturbed every time a ward is refitted or a service is rerouted

On a hospital site, these aren’t paperwork issues. They directly affect patient safety, especially for the most vulnerable. Compliance can’t be a tick-box exercise run alongside the estate, it has to be built into how legacy buildings are managed, maintained and modified day to day, so Trusts can see their risk clearly and act before it becomes an incident.

Visit us on Stand A50 at Healthcare Estates to discuss how we can work with you to make sure your hospital is fully compliant, making it safer for patients, staff and everyone on site.

You bring the questions, we’ll bring the answers.