Hi Huw

Please could we try to form a contact list for the EBME/Medical Physics departments?

This has come about because several times now we have found equipment in our hospital from other Trusts, and we want to return them. A single list with the main number is sufficient, I don't want people to feel personally pinned down as a point of contact unless they are genuinely happy for that to happen!

I don't mind collecting the data if people want to add themselves, and then I could make an easy-reference spreadsheet.

Hi Clare,

Supposedly this website is a list of EBME departments in the UK.

It doesn't hold any contact names and I don't know if the phone numbers are direct to the EBME departments or just for the main switchboard.

Might give you a good base to work with though.

Regards,

Hi Clare,
Maybe we could start here... EBME Department contacts

Although some of the contacts will be out of date, I'm afraid.

If anyone would like to add their details please do so.

If anyone would like to edit details, just send me a pm.

@Chris - I don't think that website has been updated in years.

It certainly hasn't got as much information as your list

The main problem I've encountered when calling trusts "blind" is knowing what the department call themselves. I think I've come across EBME, Medical Engineering, Clinical Engineering, Medical Physics.

Just having a direct line to the department is beneifical in itself.

Thanks both for those! I thought there ought to be a list somewhere, but struggled to find it, possibly because it is too low on the screen when I access the EBME website. I have to scroll down to see the EBME Links tab.

I still could not find a working telephone number for University Hospital of Manchester's Medical Engineering department, and despite several attempts at being put through by the hospital's reception ladies, the phone either rings and rings or drops out.

I also tried to send the correct information for our hospital to the Medweb one you posted, Chris, and the email linked to the website is no longer functioning. My email bounced back almost immediately... Ho hum.

Huw, I will give you our updated details, because they are a long way out of date now! Look out for the PM.

I also looked for a "Lost and Found" topic, which I am sort of sure I saw before, and it is ... missing.

If there is one, please could some kind person point it out, or if not could we have one please? I'm sure that equipment goes walkabout quite regularly.

We got something sent to us once by mistake that was supposed to go to Ireland... Neither the address nor the hospital name should have caused confusion, but somehow did

Thanks Clare, I will update the details

There have been several lost & found topics - I wonder if they deserve their own category...?

New Category >> Lost & Found

Hi Huw & Clare,

There was also this post as well.

Before my time on this forum but did anything happen with that in the end Huw?

There are a couple of others that I have also found but people seem to have opened a new topic for each item.

Nothing happened with the database as it wasn't practical.

However I have found a dozen or so threads on the same subject and I may combine them into a single category. (Although the topic doesn't come up as frequently as I first thought.)

I cannot believe that the Mighty NHS does not already have a master database of all departments (not only biomed) ... if not, what do all the £££ zillions that get bunged at "IT" get spent (wasted) on?

The same with "lost and found" ... is there not some kind of network within the NHS (and if not, why not)?

Reminder to all comers:- this website is *not run (operated, or financed) by the NHS!

* As far as I am aware.