Healthcare Estates 2025 - "Prevention is Better than Cure"
The definitive event for the healthcare estates community
21-22 October 2025, Manchester Central, UK
As the NHS faces unprecedented challenges – from ageing infrastructure and rising demand to ambitious Net Zero commitments and a need for new hospitals – the estates and facilities profession finds itself at the centre of vital national change.
Healthcare Estates 2025 is organised around the theme of “Prevention is Better Than Cure” and is your opportunity to join thousands of professionals in healthcare engineering, estates management and supporting sectors to address and meet those challenges, and prepare for the future.
Featuring keynote sessions, expert presentations, debates, roundtables, and a major exhibition with over 230 leading companies and industry associations, Healthcare Estates offers an unparalleled platform for informed debate, practical learning, investigation of the latest offerings from the commercial world, and identification of technical solutions.
270 Exhibitors
Free-to-attend Keynotes
Free-to-attend Theatres
Premium Conference
2025 EVENT THEME
"Prevention is Better than Cure"
With significant NHS investment expected over the next decade, our 2025 event theme reflects the need to plan proactively to avoid repeating mistakes, reduce risk, and ensure that new and existing healthcare facilities meet the needs of patients, staff and communities.
This theme underpins Healthcare Estates 2025, providing professionals working at all levels with the vital opportunity to learn from both success and failure, and to put lessons learned into practice.
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 event 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 healthcare 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.
DON'T MISS THESE KEY "PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE" MOMENTS AT HE25
DAY 1 - 21 OCTOBER
"Prevention is Better Than Cure" Keynote Panel
Keynote - "Prevention is Better Than Cure"
Day 1 – 21 October – 09.15
The opening Keynote session at Healthcare Estates 2025 brings together senior estates leaders from England, Scotland and Wales to immediately immerse the audience in the event’s central theme, “Prevention is Better than Cure.”
Chaired by IHEEM Chief Executive Pete Sellars, this session features Simon Corben, Director and Head of Profession, NHS Estates and Facilities, NHS England, Stuart Douglas, Director, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership – Specialist Estates Services, and Eddie McLaughlan, former Assistant Director of Health Facilities, NHS National Services Scotland.
The panel will share their candid reflections on where the delivery of Estates Management and Engineering services has gone wrong, the lessons learned, and how those experiences can shape better practice for the future.
DAY 2 - 22 OCTOBER
Collect Your Copy of 'Engineering & Estates Essentials - Volume 1 - Prevention is Better Than Cure'
'Engineering & Estates Essentials - Volume 1 - Prevention is Better Than Cure'
EXCLUSIVE TO DAY 2 ATTENDEES – COLLECT ON ARRIVAL
In advance of the event, the organisers have worked with speakers to prepare an exclusive publication – featuring 11 original papers sharing key insights and lessons on our central theme of ‘Prevention is Better Than Cure’ – which is made available for free to all attendees of Day 2 of the event.
Featuring such titles as “Preventing Risks Before They Escalate: A Governance-Focused Risk Reporting Dashboard for Capital Projects”, “Changing the Narrative Around Healthcare Ventilation”, and “Sustainable Healthcare in Action: How Decarbonisation at North Tyneside General Hospital Aligns with Prevention-Based Care”, this publication provides a unique and incisive document for study and consideration which may offer valuable insight for applied action to be taken in the workplace.
Live Interviews with our Awards Winners
Live Interviews with Winners of the 2025 Healthcare Estates Awards
Day 2 Afternoon – Exhibition Theatres
Fresh from their success at the Healthcare Estates Awards the previous evening, we bring you live on-stage interviews with the Winning organisations and projects in selected categories.
Throughout the afternoon of 22 October, the theatres in the Exhibition Hall stage these interviews where attendees learn from the practical experiences of teams achieving exceptional results – including Winners of awards such as New Build Project of the Year, Refurbishment Project of the Year and Architectural Practice of the Year.
This is an invaluable opportunity to hear directly from those setting the standard in innovation and operational excellence. These sessions will offer behind-the-scenes stories and proven strategies – a new and invaluable feature for 2025.
"Where Do We Go From Here" - Interactive Keynote with Networking
"Where Do We Go From Here" - Interactive Keynote with Networking
Day 2 – 22 October – 16.00
Healthcare Estates ends on a high, bringing attendees together with healthcare leaders and subject-matter experts to share and discuss key takeaways on “Prevention is Better than Cure” from across the diverse platforms of Healthcare Estates.
Chaired by Pete Sellars and former IHEEM President Paul Fenton, this definitive session will explore the path forward – safeguarding project continuity, driving sustainability, supporting the workforce, and raising the bar for healthcare infrastructure. With key contributions from Simon Corben, Stuart Douglas, and a panel of experts who have all contributed papers to the exclusive Healthcare Estates publication, “Engineering and Estates Essentials – Vol. 1 Prevention is Better Than Cure”.
ALSO IN THIS SESSION
- IHEEM Branch Members Awards – where the Institute will celebrate leadership, innovation, and community across its UK branches.
- Healthcare Estates Exhibitor Stand Awards – Best Shell Scheme and Non-Shell Scheme Stand awards will be presented to the exhibitors selected by IHEEM’s team of “secret shoppers” – recognising the exhibitors who have best demonstrated visual impact and visitor engagement.
- Closing Networking Opportunity, with complimentary hot food and refreshments – Healthcare Estates 2025 closes with a final opportunity for delegates, exhibitors and speakers to network and enjoy a variety of complimentary canapes and drinks prior to your journey home.
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Your Attendance Options
Exhibition Visitor Pass
Free of charge
For free attendance, select an Exhibition Visitor Pass, which gives access to the Exhibition, Exhibition Theatres, Keynote sessions and networking opportunities on each day.
Conference Delegate Pass
From just £180
Upgrade to a Conference Delegate Pass to get exclusive access to an additional multi-stream programme of presentations and workshops, plus on-site benefits.
