Training tomorrow's estates teams.

According to Stephen Lloyd, lead facilities management (FM) tutor at Gloucestershire-based training provider, Eastwood Park, 'a combined 150 years' invaluable estates experience has just disappeared from one hospital in the past month', and, as many experienced healthcare estates personnel retire, and the sector struggles to attract replacements, the situation is being replicated in many hospitals UK-wide. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, spoke to Stephen Lloyd, and to several of his training colleagues for a new 'Essentials for Estates' course being launched next month by Eastwood Park to address some of the 'skills gaps', to discover where they feel the biggest challenges lie for tomorrow's healthcare estates teams, and where the training focus should be.