Call for Presentations

This year’s overarching conference theme for Healthcare Estates “Prevention Is Better Than Cure” resonates deeply within the healthcare sector. The next ten years will see unprecedented investment in the NHS with the construction of new hospitals, continuing challenges around backlog maintenance and a shift to more community care which will require significant planning and development of buildings, staff and infrastructure. Alongside this is the need to employ, train and develop the estates and facilities workforce of tomorrow with new skills and qualifications that reflect the digital world we now live in.

IHEEM are keen to be at the forefront and explore this with our expansive network of healthcare professionals from government, policy, industry, academia, and members. Working together we can ensure collectively how we can better deliver a world-class healthcare service for our patients.

We therefore would like to offer this year’s conference as a platform to have informed discussions about what worked well or what didn’t work well in projects, programmes, engineering, design and planning across the NHS estate. Our estates & facilities healthcare sector professionals have gained an immense understanding and experience of valuable insights that can collectively improve the delivery of patient services.

Sharing and identifying lessons learnt from past experiences in healthcare estates is crucial for fostering improvement and avoiding repeated organisational mistakes. By analysing successes and failures in previous schemes and projects, we can collectively uncover valuable insights to guide better future estate management solutions that enhance patient safety, operational and capital efficiencies, and workforce planning.

Our conference themes provide a diverse range of estate management & engineering related topics for sharing your knowledge, experience and learning with healthcare professionals.

There are two programmes at Healthcare Estates – The Conference Programme and the Exhibition Theatre Programme. You will need to decide which programme you are applying for and follow the relevant link below to access the appropriate submission form.

Each programme has a set of key themes. Simply identify the theme most closely aligned to your proposed presentation’s subject, and make your submission to that programme.

For both programmes, we are seeking proposals that can be translated into a presentation of around 25 minutes in duration.

We use the Oxford Abstracts platform to manage presentation submissions for this event. When you click to make a submission, you will be taken to the Oxford Abstracts site where you will need to create a free account before submitting your presentation proposal.

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Who Can Apply?

The Call for Presentations is open to all individuals and companies wishing to be considered to give a presentation at the conference.

There is no limit on the number of submissions permitted from an individual or a company. More than one presentation proposal may be submitted by any company or individual as separate applications.

When is the Deadline for Submissions?

Friday 14 March 2025 at 23:59.

What is Required?

Please complete all the fields in the form, including a summary (300-words max.) containing the main points of your proposed presentation. Key learning points from the presentation are also a requirement for the presentation submission.

Presentations will be selected by the IHEEM Conference Committee on the basis of quality, originality, and relevance to the conference themes. Marketing-derived presentations, or those seeking to advertise particular products or services, will be rejected.

Presentations should be submitted in the name and with the contact details of the person that will be delivering the presentation. Speakers in the main Healthcare Estates conference are entitled to a free 2-day conference pass.

Please note:

• Where a presentation involves a case study or work done with a Hospital or Healthcare provider, the presentation proposal must come from them, rather than the contractor, architect or consultant, with the hospital or healthcare provider being the primary speaker in the presentation.
• All submissions and presentations must be in English.
• All proposals should be submitted in the name of the person that is intending to present at Healthcare Estates.

Is there a Fee?

There is no cost for submitting a presentation, nor is there a cost for presenting if the presentation is chosen for the conference. Speakers receive a complimentary 2-day Conference pass to Healthcare Estates.

How Will Successful Presentations be Selected?

Presentations will be selected by the IHEEM Conference Committee on the basis of quality, originality, and relevance to the conference themes. Marketing-derived presentations, or those seeking to advertise particular products or services, will be rejected.

Please submit your presentation to either the Conference Programme or the Exhibition Theatre Programme.

Use the themes detailed against each programme to decide which is most appropriate for your presentation’s subject.

Digital Technology & Innovation – What are the key issues impacting the EFM profession in adopting and implementing digital technologies in both the existing estate and the healthcare-built environment of the future?

Estates & Facilities Services – How can the estates and facilities profession continue to deliver high-quality healthcare services and functions to patients as they face increased and conflicting challenges of capability, capacity and efficiency particularly around finances, workforce and the net zero carbon agendas?

Governance, Assurance & Compliance – How can we ensure healthcare estate services and critical functions relating to patient safety are compliant and appropriately managed to meet the increased governance in national policy and legislative requirements of governing bodies such as HSE & CQC?

Medical Engineering & Healthcare Engineering – What are the technical, specialist and scientific challenges that need to be addressed to ensure future healthcare engineering and medical engineering services are designed differently, particularly in the areas of ventilation, water safety, infection control and infrastructure resilience?

Strategic Health & Social Care Planning – How can the estates and facilities profession effectively support & influence the delivery of the Integrated Health & Social Care System’s future strategic planning requirements?

Please contact the Conference team at Step Exhibitions on +44 (0) 1892 518877 or email victoriaemerton@step-exhibitions.com.