Survey highlights need for new blood

Ninety-five per cent of respondents to a comprehensive IHEEM membership survey, devised in-house and sent out with last August's Health Estate Journal, feel the Institute is "more relevant than any other professional body in healthcare engineering". However, the survey also strongly emphasises the need to recruit younger members, with 69% of those who returned completed questionnaires aged between 51 and 80, suggesting that the "generational handover" problem could be a major issue in the next two decades and beyond. HEJ reports on these and some of the other key findings.