The London & South East Branch invite you to their Technical Presentation - ‘Update of the Legislation to the Medium Combustion Plant Directive’, on 23 May. Booking is required. For full details >
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IHEEM Wales Branch invite you to their AGM with CPD Presentations by ARUP Cardiff on Thursday 9 May 2019. Full Details >
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The IHEEM Handbook 2019 has been launched! Soon to be sent out in May’s edition of HEJ. Can’t wait? Click here >
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We are delighted to announce that Vernacare will be exhibiting at this year’s Wales Regional Conference & Exhibition. To find out more about exhibiting email events@iheem.org.uk or click here >
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We are delighted to announce that Eastwood Park Training will be exhibiting at this year’s Wales Regional Conference & Exhibition. To find out more about exhibiting email events@iheem.org.uk or click here >
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Eastwood Park Training are running a 3 day Specialist Decontamination Seminar on 22 May 2019. The seminar presents a unique opportunity for those working in decontamination management roles and is endorsed and recognised by IHEEM. To find out more >
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The IHEEM Lifetime Achievement Award is given annually at the Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards Dinner. The award is given to a member of the Institute who has given long service to the healthcare industry, whether within the NHS or in the Private Sector, and has made a significant contribution to their particular specialsit…
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The 2019 Generative Space Award deadline for submittals is 14 June 2019. To enter the ‘Call for Entries’, please click here. See the flyer 2018 Award The 2018 award was presented to 'Unity Health Care Brentwood Waiting Room’
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We are delighted to announce the Wassenburg Medical will be the office event sponsor at this year’s Wales Regional Confernece on 5 September in Cardiff. Wassenburg Medical is a global leader in the field of flexible endoscope decontamination and has one of the UK’s largest install base. Find out more > For further information…
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The Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards Dinner takes place on 8 October at The Principal Manchester. With over 550 people attending the awards dinner, the night is a fantastic occasion celebrating excellence and achievement in the industry. The dinner is a unique opportunity to network with the best in the healthcare sector:…
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‘Where Innovation, Technology & Leadership Meet’ Be part of this unique two-day event, which is set to be the biggest event in its history with an expected 240+ exhibitors and over 4,500 attendees. This year the event will focus on Fund, Design, Build, Manage &…
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Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards recognise and award excellence in the latest innovations from the leading names in the healthcare sector. The awards are judged by experts with extenseive experience and achievements within the NHS and commercial healthcare sector. Awards…
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Pete Sellars (pictured), former head of Profession and director of the NHS Estates and Facilities Division at the Department of Health, and the Institute’s President from 2016-2018, has been appointed as out new CEO. Well-known for significantly raising the profile of the healthcare engineering/healthcare estates management…
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New online PDRs
It seems the University is moving to an online PDR process that UCU has not been consulted about. Emails being sent to staff say this new process uses the “standard” PDR form. If this is correct, and the online form is essentially the same as the paper version we agreed three years ago, we do not at present see any reason for a fuss. However, it will be a different matter if management are trying to introduce some other type of PREP or “research expectations” process that we have not agreed to.
Therefore, if you are asked to complete an online form, please first compare it with the paper form we have negotiated, which is available at http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/DocuInfo.aspx?DocID=42 Then, if they are different, let us know before continuing. We have no objection in principle to an online process, but the specifics of the form must be appropriate for academics and be agreed with UMUCU.
Please also remember that the PDR process is meant to be supportive and helpful and that, while management must offer all staff PDRs, participation is NOT compulsory. Therefore, if you are made to feel under any pressure to participate against your wishes, please contact the UMUCU office.
More performance management
We are again receiving reports of staff being summoned to meetings with their line manager to account for their performance. For example, colleagues who have several publications have been told none of them are good enough and that they will be “performance managed” if they do not get a REF 3* publication by April. Apparently, the line managers concerned are claiming that these meetings are part of the normal PDR process, but they are not; such aggressive performance management is inconsistent with the letter and the spirit of the agreed PDR process. Therefore, if this happens to you, please alert UMUCU so we can bring the matter up in our next Joint Negotiation Committee meeting with the Senior Leadership Team, and do not feel obliged to attend any further meetings before seeking union advice and representation.
Staff Survey – Let’s tell management what we think
The biennial university Staff Survey goes live today. You may remember that the infamous M2020 mass redundancy programme was announced just one week after the end of the last Staff Survey in 2017 – a rather suspicious timing the Senior Leadership Team repeatedly assured us was completely unplanned. Despite the fact that this bad news for hundreds of staff was not yet known, the proportion of staff who answered positively to the question, “To what extent do you agree the President’s Senior Leadership Team listen to and respond to the views of staff” was only 47%, down from 51% in 2015 and the lowest satisfaction score recorded in the Survey. We will look forward to seeing the response to this question in this year’s Survey.
Do you have knowledge of developing conference programmes? Enjoy planning events? Great organisational skills? The IHEEM Conference & Exhibition Committee are seeking new members from the NHS and Healthcare industry. As a committee we plan…
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The Trustee Board of the Royal Academy of Engineering has nominated Professor Sir Jim McDonald FREng FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, as its Presidential candidate for election by Fellows at the September 2019 AGM. Upon election by the Fellowship, Sir Jim would serve a term of five years and would…
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Sunday 23 June will mark 2019’s International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED19), when we will be encouraging participants to show the world how they are ‘transforming the future’ in pursuit of more diversity in engineering. This global awareness campaign, coordinated by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), aims to…
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The Call for Presentations for Healthcare Estates ends tomorrow! Only one day left to submit your presentations proposal for Healthcare Estates 2019. Hosting the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE), this year only! Submit your presentation by 15 February.
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There will be an Emergency General Meeting (EGM) next Wednesday, Feb 13th, 12:30-1:30, in the Chemistry Building Room G54, to update members on the current pay ballot and USS negotiations.
The ballot on industrial action over pay and equality ends on February 22nd which means we have just two weeks left to Get The Vote Out and ensure the turnout is over 50%.
Regarding USS, the news is not good. As you know, the Joint Expert Panel (JEP) set up by UCU and UUK completely vindicated our strikes last year and the criticisms very many people, not just UCU, have leveled against the flawed valuation approach adopted by the USS. The JEP panelists came to the unanimous conclusion that current benefits could be maintained with manageable increases in contributions of 1.1% by members and 2.1% by employers – a judgement that has now been endorsed not just by First Actuarial, UCU’s advisors, but also by UUK’s actuarial advisors, Aon.
It is also quite clear that in the recent UUK consultation the majority if not all pre-92 universities have also come down on the side of implementing the JEP recommendations. Even the University of Manchester, which up till now has always been one of the most hardline employers, is now taking this view as can be seen from its submission posted on Staffnet on Jan 25th
However, despite this widespread support for a sensible settlement, it looks like the dispute may be about to flare up again because of the intransigence of the USS Chief Executive, Bill Galvin, and actuary, Mercers, who are (stupidly in our view) refuting the wealth of expert opinion and resisting implementation of the JEP proposals in what looks like a desperate attempt to salvage their professional reputations in the face of myriad criticisms.
If Bill Galvin gets his way, the current USS member contributions of 8% for members and 18% for employers would have to increase to as much as 11.7% for members and 24.9% for employers in April 2020, or benefits (i.e. pensions) will have to be reduced. This would wreck the USS pension scheme.
We are astonished to learn that the final guidance on the REF 2021 permits the submission of outputs of former staff made redundant! This is cynical and outrageous. UCU nationally is opposed to the new proposal and has written to higher education institutions calling for them to rule out implementing this proposal in their REF code of practice. We expect the University of Manchester to agree with this but if anyone knows of a department intending to submit REF outputs for staff who have been made redundant, please let the UMUCU office know.
There will be an Emergency General Meeting (EGM) next Wednesday, Feb 13th, 12:30-1:30, in the Chemistry Building Room G54, to update members on the current pay ballot and USS negotiations.
The ballot on industrial action over pay and equality ends on February 22nd which means we have just two weeks left to Get The Vote Out and ensure the turnout is over 50%.
Regarding USS, the news is not good. As you know, the Joint Expert Panel (JEP) set up by UCU and UUK completely vindicated our strikes last year and the criticisms very many people, not just UCU, have leveled against the flawed valuation approach adopted by the USS. The JEP panelists came to the unanimous conclusion that current benefits could be maintained with manageable increases in contributions of 1.1% by members and 2.1% by employers – a judgement that has now been endorsed not just by First Actuarial, UCU’s advisors, but also by UUK’s actuarial advisors, Aon.
It is also quite clear that in the recent UUK consultation the majority if not all pre-92 universities have also come down on the side of implementing the JEP recommendations. Even the University of Manchester, which up till now has always been one of the most hardline employers, is now taking this view as can be seen from its submission posted on Staffnet on Jan 25th
However, despite this widespread support for a sensible settlement, it looks like the dispute may be about to flare up again because of the intransigence of the USS Chief Executive, Bill Galvin, and actuary, Mercers, who are (stupidly in our view) refuting the wealth of expert opinion and resisting implementation of the JEP proposals in what looks like a desperate attempt to salvage their professional reputations in the face of myriad criticisms.
If Bill Galvin gets his way, the current USS member contributions of 8% for members and 18% for employers would have to increase to as much as 11.7% for members and 24.9% for employers in April 2020, or benefits (i.e. pensions) will have to be reduced. This would wreck the USS pension scheme.
We are astonished to learn that the final guidance on the REF 2021 permits the submission of outputs of former staff made redundant! This is cynical and outrageous. UCU nationally is opposed to the new proposal and has written to higher education institutions calling for them to rule out implementing this proposal in their REF code of practice. We expect the University of Manchester to agree with this but if anyone knows of a department intending to submit REF outputs for staff who have been made redundant, please let the UMUCU office know.
