BIFM Lancashire Group News Release Facilities Management Professionals donate their time to visit NHS Blood and Transplant’s Liverpool centre Over twenty members of the BIFM Lancashire Networking Group recently attended an event organised at NHS Blood and Transplant’s regional facility in Speke. The tour was hosted by Chris Holt, BIFM member and Area Facilities Manager at the Centre and several other properties in the North West. The NHS Blood and Transplant Centre in Speke was opened in 2005 and its role is to co-ordinate, retrieve, process, bank and supply human tissue grafts for use in surgery within the NHS. The Centre provides state of the art tissue banking facilities and contains 60 ultra low temperature freezers, 14 cleanrooms and a tissue retrieval suite. As well as explaining to the group about the crucial role Facilities Management plays at the Centre, Chris also arranged guest speakers. Dawn Lee spoke to the Group about the importance of Organ Donation and the critical need for donors; currently there are approximately 10,000 people in need of a lifesaving organ, but 3 people die every day whilst waiting. Gary Wilders of the Tissue Processing Unit also spoke of his team’s work, as well as passing specimens around to the less squeamish members of the Group. The event was rounded off by a guided tour of the facilities by Chris and the opportunity for the Group members to network. The next event planned by the group will be in May at Manchester’s Imperial War Museum. Pictures of the Event: Members of the Group networking upon arrival (left) and during the guided tour (right)

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Over twenty members of the BIFM Lancashire Networking Group recently attended an event organised at NHS Blood and Transplant’s regional facility in Speke.

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Page 1: Facilities Management Professionals visit NHS Blood and Transplant’s Liverpool centre

BIFM Lancashire Group News Release

Facilities Management Professionals donate their time to visit NHS Blood and

Transplant’s Liverpool centre

Over twenty members of the BIFM Lancashire Networking Group recently attended an event organised at NHS Blood and Transplant’s regional facility in Speke.

The tour was hosted by Chris Holt, BIFM member and Area Facilities Manager at the Centre and several other properties in the North West. The NHS Blood and Transplant Centre in Speke was opened in 2005 and its role is to co-ordinate, retrieve, process, bank and supply human tissue grafts for use in surgery within the NHS. The Centre provides state of the art tissue banking facilities and contains 60 ultra low temperature freezers, 14 cleanrooms and a tissue retrieval suite.

As well as explaining to the group about the crucial role Facilities Management plays at the Centre, Chris also arranged guest speakers. Dawn Lee spoke to the Group about the importance of Organ Donation and the critical need for donors; currently there are approximately 10,000 people in need of a lifesaving organ, but 3 people die every day whilst waiting. Gary Wilders of the Tissue Processing Unit also spoke of his team’s work, as well as passing specimens around to the less squeamish members of the Group.

The event was rounded off by a guided tour of the facilities by Chris and the opportunity for the Group members to network. The next event planned by the group will be in May at Manchester’s Imperial War Museum.

Pictures of the Event:

Members of the Group networking upon arrival (left) and during the guided tour (right)

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Details of the group can be found on Linked In, Twitter (@BIFM_Lancs) or by contacting Karen Farnan (07827979061) and Mark Whittaker (07764 840 694) directly.

March 2012