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HITTING THE MAGIC HUNDRED - Spring 2000

I am pleased to report that the previous twelve months have been the most successful since the Estates TAG was introduced.

We have experienced excellent attendances with our Y2K seminar breaking all records. Over 100 applications were received from the Wrightington conference and as a result of the outstanding attendances it will be possible in the forthcoming year to maintain the charges at their present level of £90 per seminar.

The forthcoming year will present the TAG with considerable opportunities to extend the knowledge of estate professionals, particularly in the areas of statutory compliance and asset management. The recent changes introduced by the Government in connection with corporate governance will have a cascading effect that will be felt throughout the NHS Estate. I feel certain that pressures will increase for ever more accurate assessments of risks and tabulation of procedures and practices undertaken by Estates Departments, The need to log and record routine maintenance procedures and control specialist contractors work-ing on the estate will become an ever greater demand upon the estate professional’s time. The need to show documented evidence that staff are adequately briefed, qualified, expe-rienced and trained for the work which they are charged to undertake will become an ever more onerous element of our many duties.

The buoyant financial position of the TAG should allow it to extend its activities into areas of more specialist training, with particular emphasis being placed on supervisors and trades-men within the Estate Departments.

It is also the intention of the TAG to explore the possibilities of accreditation with the various professional institutes of which our colleagues are members.

I am pleased to report that we have managed to obtain the services of two new TAG members;

ALLISTAIR BALDOCKE, Burnley Health Care NHS Trust
BILL McMASTER, South Man University Hospitals NHS Trust

I feel confident that this injection of new blood will give us a year which is not only ‘bug free’ but also of great interest to all our colleagues.

Colin Fitzpatrick
Director of Facilities and Chairman of the Estates TAG
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust