LEAP 05 Speakers
George McCracken.
Director of Estates, Risk and Environment, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland
George McCracken joined the Health Service in 1993 as a Hospital Engineer in Northern Ireland. In 2002 he moved to the Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast, as a Senior Engineer. Then, in November 2007, George took up post as Head of Estates Risk and Environment in the new Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. This is one of the largest Hospital Trusts in the UK.
He holds a 1st Class Honours Degree in Construction Engineering & Management, is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Building and an associate member of Institute of Healthcare Engineering & Estate Management.
Currently George leads a Risk Team that provides a unique and innovative approach to the management of risk within an Estates Healthcare Environment. He also leads the Estates Environmental Team, which has been at the forefront of developing technologies promoting sustainability in healthcare.
Matt Morse
Manager of the Legionella Control Association and consultant at Dragonfly Water Consultancy
Matt Morse’s work experience includes over twenty years in the water treatment and water hygiene industry. He is currently the Manager of the Legionella Control and the principal consultant at Dragonfly Water Consultancy.
Some key highlights of Matt’s career including being a member of the industry writing group for ACOP L8 2013 and HSG274, a member of several British Standards Institute committees/working groups including the BS8580 standard for Legionella risk assessment, the BS8680 standard for Water Safety Plans and the BS7592 standard for legionella sampling
Matt is also a fellow of the Water Management Society and a member of the Institute of Health Estates and Estates Managers.
Mike Ralph
NHSI: Principle Engineer & Senior Policy/Strategy Lead (Hard FM) - NHS Improvement
Mike is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the IMechE and IHEEM.
Mike was employed in the NHS for 27 years after a military apprenticeship serving with the Army and MoD. He was an Executive Director of Estates and Facilities for 13 years at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Croydon Health Services.
He was in the NHS was as Director of Estates/Redevelopment at Ipswich Hospital, after having worked on many local and National DH/NHS estates initiatives and standards revisions.
His last post was as the UK & Ireland Head of Healthcare Engineering for Sodexo and has been working with BESA to co-author the HTM (Healthcare) Module for SFG 20.
Mike is currently working as the Principal Engineer & Senior Policy/Strategy Lead (Hard FM) for NHS Improvement
Warren Bradshaw
CDM Management Officer for the property team at Highlands Council
Working as a practising engineer for many years, Warren then became manager of the water safety team at The Highlands Council, an incorporated engineer and a member of the Institute of Water.
With a vast array of properties based within a large geographical area in Scotland, Warren has had to look at ways of ensuring compliance in all properties. Part of this has been looking at The Internet of Things (IOT) and how IT can assist with this. Warren will be presenting his research and decisions on the evidence that was provided. Moving forward, this technology can be looked at in the wider estates of other NHS trusts and companies.
Diego Jimenez
Client Relations Manager/ Water Quality Analyst at ProEconomy Ltd
Diego moved to London from Madrid in 2013 to live and study at University College London. Here, he achieved a 1st Class Honors Degree in Environmental Engineering and a Masters of Engineering.
Diego was successful in placing at the ProEconomy sponsored Endeavour awards where he collaborated in an environmental project with Great Ormond Street Hospital. Following this, Diego has been part of the client relations team at the water treatment company ProEconomy for two years. Following research and development projects and a successful two years, Diego received a promotion to client relations manager.
Professor Clive Thompson
Chief Scientist at ALS laboratories
ALS are one largest analytical testing organisations in the UK and Ireland, operating from a total of 22 sites and employing over 1,500 staff in the food, water and environmental sectors. Clive is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC); Chartered Chemist (CChem); Chartered Scientist (CSci); Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (FCIWEM); Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH); Visiting Professor at East London University of London; Fellow of the Water Management Society (FWMSoc); Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (FIFST); Member of the American Chemical Society; and Member of the American Society for Microbiology .
He is involved in the development of chemical, microbiological and molecular biological new methods for food and water. ALS UK has six MALDI-TOF systems for rapid identification of bacterial pathogens. He is on the Board of Trustees, Food Group, Environment Health and Safety Group and Science and Enterprise Group of the SCI. He is also on the RSC Water Science Forum and Food Group and is active in a number of BSI, CEN and ISO groups. Publishing over 50 peer-reviewed papers and editing a number of books, Clive is also involved in the organisation of a number of UK and International conferences.
Claire Hennessey
Director of Estates at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
After leaving school at 17, Claire joined the Royal Navy. Here, she was a weapons electrical engineer mechanic working on-board Her Majesty’s warships maintaining and carrying out repairs on the weapons and radar systems. After four years travelling the world with the Royal Navy, she left to become an electrical apprentice at The Hammersmith Hospital in London. During this apprenticeship, her line manager nominated her for the Junior Engineer of the Year Award 1997, which she duly won.
Claire completed her apprenticeship at the Hammersmith Hospital. Next, she moved on to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St Johns Wood, as the Assistant Works Manager. Six years later, she joined Hemel Hempstead General Hospital as Estates Officer. She then went on to Watford General Hospital to manage the Operational Estates Team. In 2012 she returned to her home town of Oxford where she was the Head of Operational Estates and Facilities at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Claire is now the Director of Estates at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Alongside developing her career and a punishing work schedule, Claire has also progressed her academic qualifications from her initial Electrical Installation City & Guilds with a BEng Hons in Building Services Engineering and she also holds Senior Authorised Persons status across all engineering specialities following successful completion of all specialist AP courses and AE assessment
John Murray
AE Water Sodexo UK
John is a Master plumber and has been in the water industry for 47 years. He approaches water management in accordance with HSE guidance before COSHH assessment is required. This includes reviewing, assessing and advising those appointed to manage the HSE needs of the suitability of staff including those required to meet the engineering or technical delivery of water system in accordance with HSE and UG government guidance. Adding to this, he supports specialists to meet the elimination, prevention, and, if all fails, the control needs of Legionella and other microbes in the water system.
John is a member of IHEEM, BIFM, CIPHE Chemical – Bics.
John will be on the compliance table for the round table discussions.
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