EBME Forums Forums Management Medical Equipment Management "Warning" - Managed Equipment Services (MES)

Hi Richard

From attendance of the NHS Confederations Future Healthcare Network and the MES conference earlier this year MES is the concept involved with PFI. The MES provider owns the equipment, replaces it at agreed time intervals and maintains it in exchange for a yearly fee which should be lower than the the Trust spends on yearly capital purchases and maintenance contracts.

Some existing MES only involve big ticket items like imaging, pathology etc and run without threat to the existing EBME department who traditionally never looked after these items. Some of the commercial presenters report working side by side with EBME departments who sometimes were paid to provide first line.

Unlike the older MSV/MVS contracts which were outsourced ebme services like the one in Salford. Join the FHN, the contact at the NHS confederation is Kay Rulton and the chair is Lawrence Bunnett.