BRANCH REPORTS
NSW/ACT BRANCH REPORT
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ver the past several months the COVID-19 pandemic has created many challenges for Hospital Engineers across NSW. Despite investment on healthcare projects, before and during the pandemic, hospital systems and infrastructure are not efficiently meeting this accelerating demand, with significant spending still occurring in many local health districts to address historical under-investment both in human and infrastructure assets. Growing healthcare infrastructure costs and ageing assets means a struggle to deliver on political imperatives for the delivery of new facilities, and repurposing of existing infrastructure within NSW Health. Due to COVID pressures during this year many events have been canceled or deferred, and the NSW / ACT Branch is planning to hold the re-scheduled Professional Development Conference in mid-2022. This will include PD sessions, a Trade Display and Branch General Meeting at the C,ex Club Coffs in beautiful Coffs Harbour. The conference theme will be “Environmental Challenges for Healthcare Engineering”. Currently there is a greater focus on running Professional Development days when possible as COVID restrictions are relaxed. The commitment to hold these events on a regular basis will be part of the NSW/ACT 2021-22 branch strategy to re-engage with members. The Committee of Management is also working towards organising a PD day on 25 February 2022 and a “Save the date” notification has been sent to all members. Membership All members should have received their annual membership renewal invoices by now. The CoM is planning to follow up with reminders for membership renewals and actively engage with the members to understand their expectation. Due to COVID-19 the interests from both industry groups and health facility management professional, have considerably decreased. The CoM is discussing a variety of strategies on an ongoing basis to serve our members better and meet their expectations. CoM continue to encourage members to use the IHEA LDApp. We encourage NSW/ACT members to contact us via email at ihea.nswact@ihea.org.au
Committee of Management President
Rob Arian
Treasurer
Mal Allen
Vice President
Jason Swingler
Secretary
Marcus Stalker
Committee Member
Dean Benke
Committee Member
Greg Allen
Committee Member
Brett Petherbridge
Committee Member
Jon Gowdy
Committee Member
John Miles
Committee Member
Richard Dyer
Committee Member
Cameron Ivers
Committee Member
Justin Walker
To communicate with the branch committee please email us at ihea.nswact@ihea.org.au Rob Arian NSW/ACT Branch President
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