The NHS Estates & Facilities Conference 2023
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The NHS Estates & Facilities Conference 2023
The NHS Estates & Facilities Conference 2023
The Convenzis NHS Estates Conference series is the leading complimentary 1-day event for NHS Estates and Facilities professionals in the UK. Over 800 sector professionals have joined us over the last 18 months to listen, learn and engage directly with key policymakers and peers from across the UK.
The NHS backlog maintenance bill has risen to over £9 billion, while the annual bill for running the NHS estate totalled £9.7 billion in 2020, this is according to recently released figures from NHS Digital.
As we enter a new year, this conference aims to provide key planning guidance and practical examples of best practices from across the NHS and commercial sector.
If you are an NHS estates manager/ leader, you are provided with a fully funded and CPD accredited pass to attend this session.
Research sources: The Kings Fund, NHS E/I, GPA
Do you work for a PFI Facilities Management Company within an NHS Trust? As part of the private finance initiative contract, you are entitled to a complimentary delegate pass for this conference.
Overview of what a PFI contract is
Trusts receive some of their Estates and Facilities Management services from external sources through a Private Finance Initiative contract. This includes buildings & grounds management, cleaning, catering laundry, car parking, security, & portering, The Trust manages these contracts to ensure service delivery is optimised for patients.
Sponsors & Partners
Key event learning points:
- Sustainability: The NHS is focusing on sustainability in the design, construction, and operation of its estates and facilities. This includes initiatives such as energy efficiency, water conservation, and the use of renewable energy sources.
- Digital transformation: The NHS is investing in digital technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its estates and facilities management. This includes the use of building information modeling (BIM), asset management systems, and smart building technologies.
- Collaboration and partnerships: The NHS is forming collaborations and partnerships with other organizations, including the private sector, in order to deliver more efficient and cost-effective estates and facilities management.
- Adaptability: The NHS is designing its estates and facilities to be adaptable and flexible, in order to meet the changing needs of patients and staff.
- Patient-centred design: The NHS is placing an increased emphasis on designing its estates and facilities with the needs of patients in mind, in order to improve the patient experience and create a more welcoming and comfortable environment.
- Associate Directors of Estates & Facilities
- Chair
- Chief Executives
- Clinical Directors/Leaders
- Commercial Directors/Managers
- Deputy Directors of Estates, Facilities & IT
- Directors/Heads of Estates & Capital
- ProjectsDirectors/Heads of IT
- Directors/Heads of Organisational Development
- Director/Heads of Operations
- Electrical Engineering Estates Managers
- Energy Managers
- Estates Compliance Managers
- Head of Estates Compliance
- Heads of Estates & Facilities
- Health & Safety Managers
- Mechanical Engineering Estates Managers
- Net Zero Managers
- NHS Trust Directors and Senior Managers
- Senior Estates Managers
- Strategic Estates Advisors/managers
- Sustainability Managers
Your Pass Includes....
Your Pass Includes:
- Multiple live keynote presentations
- Live examples of both NHS and Commercial best practice
- Breakfast, Lunch and Refreshments included
- Meet the supplier sessions.
- Networking opportunity
- Live Q&A sessions with all speakers on the day
- Drinks receptions (subject to event)
- CPD accreditation
- Prize draws
Tickets For NHS Senior Managers
We have an invite only option for NHS Senior Managers for our conference, to see if you qualify for a complimentary place please click the button below.
Conference Speakers
Nicola
Theron
Director of Strategic Estates
North Central London Integrated Care System
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Paul
Fitzpatrick
Director of Estates and Facilities
Liverpool University Hospital NHS FT
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The programme
Registration
Registration
Collaboration and Partnership within the ICS and with the private sector – a CDC case study at Wood Green Shopping City
Presentation Synopisis tbc
How green infrastructure can deliver NHS strategic priorities for sustainability and patient-centred design
- Introducing Building with Nature accredited health-care facilities that showcase the value of delivering high-quality green infrastructure to secure climate-positive and nature-positive NHS estates.
- Delivering sustainability through utilising multi-functional green infrastructure that is climate resilient, improves water quality and management, and delivers increased biodiversity.
- Supporting patient-centred design and community health and wellbeing by delivering better access to nature.
- Reviewing how a collaborative partnership approach to design and delivery of green infrastructure results in better outcomes for patients and community wellbeing.
- Exploring how a set of green infrastructure quality standards can support decision making from outline proposals through to management and maintenance of estates.
Futureproofing NHS Estates through Collaboration and Partnership
This presentation will highlight how Bouygues Energies & Services is supporting our healthcare clients on their path to Net Zero through the delivery of energy focused FM, the utilisation of our recently launched 360 online self-assessment tool, Orbiter™, carbon reduction technical assessments, the measurement of our scope 3 emissions as well as facilitating an air quality working group.
It will also cover our digital transformation process with a focus on smart hospitals and The Plan Group, underlining what is possible and what has been achieved so far. In addition, collaboration and partnerships delivering beyond PFI will be discussed in terms of what is involved.
Fundamentally to implement and deliver the above, adaptability is key when working in a live environment; the presentation will conclude with insights on how we are helping tackle health inequalities specifically at two of our NHS hospital contracts.
Q&A
Morning Break
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) for refurbishment of existing Hospital Interiors
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) for refurbishment of existing Hospital Interiors presentation communicates the features and benefits of prefabricated interiors.
Hybrid and hubs: how the public sector is unlocking potential with hybrid working
Join colleagues from the NHS for an interactive panel discussion to explore how hybrid working is delivering real change to NHS estates. We will cover the challenges, techniques, technologies, and real-life experiences that were used to manage the new world of hybrid working in the NHS. We will discuss the change in attitude towards working, the workspace supply, and the ever-changing demand from staff and management.
The panel will be hosted by Matt Etherington (Head of NHS and Corporate, Matrix Booking Ltd) and consist of the following members:
- Nicola Theron - Director of Estates - North Central London ICS
- Paul Fitzpatrick - Director of Estates and Facilities - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Phil Shaw - Divisional Director, Tilbury Douglas
NHS Estates and Facilities – Apprenticeships
Zero carbon commuting – lessons from trailblazers.
Barry Waterhouse, Group Travel and Access Manager from Norther Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust and Mark Hand, Director of Mobilityways, discuss best practice on implementing sustainable commuting in the NHS
Q&A Panel
Networking
How offsite construction can help alleviate waiting time pressures currently facing the NHS.
With more than seven million people on a hospital waiting list in England - one in eight of the nation's entire population – and a pressing need to improve existing building stock, Wayne Yeomans looks at how an offsite and modular buildings signpost a way forward.
New Hospitals Programme: Transformational Co-production
Best practice showcase of NHS and industry delivering the New Hospitals Programme in collaboration. Addressing the need to create better enabling environments for patient care and outcomes and how suppliers deliver on that need using the latest technology. Together developing new standards for the NHS to improve the built environment by reviewing design components and ways of working to deliver more efficiently.
Transforming patient care through effective location management
- Exploring the benefits of accurate location identification across the NHS estate
- What are Global Location Numbers (GLNs), and why should you use them?
- The direct link between effective estates management and patient care
- The art of the possible using GLNs
Q&A Panel
Q&A Panel
Delivering Net Zero Panel Debate
Delivering Net Zero Panel Debate:
- Turgis Séverine, Sustainability Manager, North West London ICS
- Tim Radcliffe, Net Zero Food Programme Manager, NHS England
- Fiona O'Mahony, Sustainability Programme Manager, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS
- Andrew Urquhart, Sustainability Lead, Suffolk & North East Essex ICB
Drinks Reception, Networking and End of Day
Drinks Reception, Networking and End of Day
