The Healthcare Conference, Exhibition and Awards take place at the Manchester Central convention complex on 8 and 9th October
The Healthcare Conference, Exhibition and Awards 2024
The Exhibition at Healthcare Estates is free to attend and is the place for healthcare engineering and E&FM professionals of all levels to discover the products, services and information to help them meet current and future challenges.
Attendees to the exhibition will be greeted by over 200 leading suppliers, covering every discipline related to designing, building, managing and maintaining healthcare estates and facilities. This is already one of the UK’s largest dedicated exhibitions for the sector, and 2024 sees further expansion with the launch of a new industry zone: Software & Smart Hospitals. This new zone joins the established zones of Design & Construction, Energy & Sustainability, HVAC & Engineering, Water & Infection Control and Facilities Management to provide visitors with comprehensive coverage of equipment, products and services to meet current and future challenges.
Each zone features a Seminar Theatre, from where the sector’s leading associations and organisations will deliver a programme of free content on that zone’s theme, with over 60 sessions available in total.
All visitors to the event can attend the conference keynote sessions, featuring leaders from NHS England, top academics, heads of engineering-focused professional organisations and industry experts. The keynote line up for 2024 includes: Jacqui Rock, Chief Commercial Officer, NHS England; Simon Corben, Director and Head of Profession – NHS Estates, NHS England; Fiona Daly, National Deputy Director of Estates, NHS England; Matt Ward, National Estates Strategy Lead, NHS England; Michael Wood, Head of Health Economic Partnerships, NHS Confederation; Wayne Carr, Director of Estates, Facilities and Clinical Engineering, City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises (CHoICE); Richard Lennard, Executive Commercial Director, New Hospital Programme; Prof. Grant Mills, Professor of Healthcare Infrastructure Delivery and Bartlett Faculty Lead for Health, UCL; Prof. Rebecca Shipley OBE, Professor of Healthcare Engineering – Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCL; James Blood, Digital Director at Stephen George + Partners (SGP); Hilary Leevers, Chief Executive, EngineeringUK; Prof. John Chudley, CEO of Engineering Council UK; Caroline Finlay, Chief Operating Officer, MTS Health; and Dr John Sandham, Executive Advisor to MTS Health and Chairman, EBME Expo.
The conference programme provides a further 40 in-depth presentations organised around five themes, reflecting key challenges affecting the healthcare estates and facilities sector:
• Digital Technology & Innovation
• Estates & Facilities Services
• Governance, Assurance & Compliance
• Strategic Health & Social Care Planning
• Medical Engineering & Healthcare Engineering.
A one-day conference pass is available for as little as £165 +VAT (IHEEM member rate) and provides the opportunity to complete up to 10 hours of certified CPDs.
The 2024 Healthcare Estates Awards take place on the evening of 8th October at the Kimpton Clocktower Hotel, Manchester. Awards recognising outstanding individuals, teams, products and projects in the healthcare engineering and estate management sector will be presented in 12 categories. Winners are chosen by an esteemed panel of industry experts and judged against key criteria of originality, innovation, quality of planning and execution, and delivery of desirable economic development or regeneration.
The event website below is the place to go to find more details of the event programme, the latest exhibitor list and awards shortlists, as well as to book exhibition visitor passes, conference delegate passes, and places at the awards dinner.
