I've never seen so many jobs being advertised at one time, for Technicians working in equipment maintenance, by Medical Physics and EBME departments. All advertised very recently - this implies the demand's there. We have about 30 in our EBME department that's recently been restructured and is in the process of taking on an equipment library function. We have a significant number of over 55s I think - thus 20% of our department would probably be eligible for early retirement if redundancies were imposed. How many work in your department at Stoke (City General, I assume), BSM, and how many do you think are eligible for early retirement, if push comes to shove?
