FM 'in fashion' now and for the future

With estates and facilities "very much in fashion" given that patients now increasingly put cleanliness and the "general environment" at the top of their agenda, estates personnel now have an opportunity to be "right at the heart of health", said Health Facilities Scotland (HFS) director Paul Kingsmore, keynote speaker at the recent 2009 Healthcare Facilities Consortium conference in Oxford. However, achieving this goal would, he said, require not only developing firm goals and a strong, skilled workforce for today, but equally for the next decade and beyond. Jonathan Baillie reports.