title: Examining the global challenges ahead.
abstract: A quartet of speakers at a London seminar that looked ahead to the challenges facing the sector to 2020 and beyond, held in early November to mark IHEEM's 70th Anniversary, addressed subjects including how the global healthcare community will tackle a significant future increase in demand for care, the growing pressure to reduce energy consumption, and the predicted migration of much of the care currently provided in large acute hospitals to community healthcare settings and patients' homes. The seminar, entitled 'Healthcare Estates 2020', was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers just off Parliament Square, and was followed by a celebratory lunch in an impressive riverside setting at the Houses of Parliament. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
authors: Jonathan
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authors: Baillie
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003246:Conservation of Energy Resources; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D006285:Health Planning; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D008131:London