All about Estates:

How many colleagues work in estates?

HRI (Trust staff Estates and Facilities) = 402; CRH (ISS Staff – facilities) = 304; CRH (Engie Staff – Estates) = 32

How important is estates to the Trust?

Director Lesley Hill, said: "  The Trust can't function without us. We develop and maintain the buildings, we keep them clean, we move our patients about to the right departments for their care and we feed our patients.We also make sure they have all the equipment they need."

What makes you proud about working in estates.

"It's a fantastic team, who work incredibly hard, and I'm proud of what they achieve."

Give us an example of the range of services estates provides?

Cleaning; Portering; Catering; Transport;Estates; Capital developments; General office; Medical devices (20,000 of them); PFI management

Tell us something funny that’s happened at work?

The patients keep us cheerful. They appreciate our services- and tell us stories.