... and from now on in relation to medical equipment parts (restoration)!
Whatever you do, Mate, please don't bin those parts and manuals.
While I'm on, I'm a bit intrigued about what's going on here. How do you account for this stuff? Can NHS hospitals simply pass stuff like this on to other NHS hospitals, then? Or to third parties, like charities? Can you just give it away (or just bin it, for that matter), free of charge? Bearing in mind that the tax-payer supposedly footed the bill in the first place, isn't there a procedure whereby the Exchequer gets some sort of return?
I assume that when stuff goes to auction, the monies generated return to the Trust concerned. So, shouldn't
all surpluses be auctioned-off as a matter of course?
The Armed Forces used to store stuff in aircraft hangars (typically) and prepare it for auction. The proceeds were returned to the
Public Purse (eventually). They couldn't just pass it around between units, sell it themselves, bin it, or simply give it away. Stuff had to "sent back", as it were. Everything was accounted for. Doesn't the NHS have some sort of Returned Stores system, or am I missing something here?
