LEADERSHIP FORUM

Join us in Telford, May 14-16 2025, for our National Leadership Forum

Richard Best, Chair of HEFMA’s West Midlands Branch, which is the organising and host Branch for the event, is looking forward to welcoming everyone to the 2025 Forum. The programme theme, ‘Fit for Purpose: Adapting, Developing, Delivering’, has been curated to provide insight for NHS Estates and Facilities staff about their current work and challenges, as well as those that loom in the future. 

Estates and Facilities Management, in common with the rest of the NHS, remains in a state of flux. The political landscape has changed, and the new Government, insisting that reform is essential, has set out the three big shifts it wants to drive for the NHS. HEFMA’s 2025 Forum aims to identify what that means for EFM. The programme will help to guide E&F service delivery to become an inspirational part of directing how that change affects the patient journey, through our estate and the built environment, to demonstrate how a Return on Investment translates into improved patient care.

Meet the 2025 Host

Richard will open the event and introduce the 2025 Forum Host – journalist and broadcaster Rachel McTavish. With 25 years of experience, which has seen her work for ITV, BBC, FIVE, GMB, STV and a host of corporate and foreign broadcasters, Rachel is widely accepted as one of the country’s most experienced broadcast journalists. 

Panel Sessions

Making the most of Rachel’s skills as a journalist and broadcaster, the programme includes a number of panel sessions during which subject matter experts and NHS professionals will share their views and debate challenges and solutions around topical issues, including risk and sustainability.

Motivational/Keynote Presentations

For the first of these sessions, HEFMA is delighted to confirm that Tim Keogh, CEO and Co-Founder, A Kind Life, will be joining us. Kinder healthcare is safer healthcare. As co-founder of A Kind Life, Tim’s mission is to spread kindness in healthcare. Over the past 15 years Tim has worked with more than 75 healthcare organisations and 100,000 healthcare staff, nurturing kinder cultures, leaders and teams.

Delivering for Members

In autumn 2024, HEFMA launched its first national membership survey to ask members what they want from their association. This feedback has now been compiled and used to set out the direction of travel for HEFMA for the next five years in its new Strategy document, as well as the core topics for workstream groups to focus on. National Chair David Moss will take to the stage to provide members with a full update of association activities for the last 12 months and an outline of what to expect next.

A separate session will provide members with more detail of the progress of the workstreams that have been in place over the last year.

Workforce & Standards

Across two sessions, the Forum programme will present an update of the latest standards for facilities services and what these and other factors (such as technology and AI) mean for the future workforce. Separately, the programme will drill into some solutions and practical case studies for workforce development.

Policy Update

With a change of Government comes a new set of priorities and messages around all public services. The Forum will hear from the National team about the priorities for NHS Estates and Facilities Management.

Networking events

The Forum will open with an informal, ice-breaker dinner on the evening of Wednesday, May 14.

On Thursday, May 15, delegates and suppliers will gather for our gala dinner. The winners of HEFMA’s 2025 Awards will be announced during the evening. 

The final speaker line-up will follow very soon. Scroll down to find the link for the live booking system.

To refresh your mind about what a fantastic event the 2024 National Forum was, please see the full report in the July/August issue of HEFMA’s Pulse magazine, and click here to view the photo gallery from the event.