I think Lee if your unit is covered in tar and nicotine then you should seriously consider asking your smokers to go outside

I still believe that we, as biomeds, need to be on site to give that first line response, you know the jobs, changing the lamps in the lightsource to stop the whole endoscopy list being cancelled. Not big money jobs but need a "man what can".

All that PM work that could easily be outsourced pays our wages to be on site to do the silly jobs.

These silly jobs that we have seen in the PFI schemes means it costs £120 to change a light bulb.

Outsourcing just means another layer of "profit" to be paid out to someone somewhere.

( time to put soapbox away and crawl back to my broom cupboard and do those nebs....)

You're absolutely right.

It's those "little" jobs which have always been the real reason that biomeds need to be in-house, and on-site. To provide an immediate response, if you like.

We must also remain humble in order to carry out such work. Humble, but proud to be providing an efficient service ... whether that is appreciated by others or not.

Some things (many, in fact) cannot be measured in monetary terms alone (despite what the suits may have us believe).

In passing, I'm wondering what any of the service contractors would quote (if at all) for a 24x7 presence on site (a service that I myself, and others known to me, have provided in the past). And when I say "presence" ... I'm talking about shift work, carrying on with out-of-hours PM, whilst remaining generally available for whatever crops up, and all the rest.