Thanks all for the input so far. Thanks Alex for your pro-forma!
Here at Macclesfield, we have a group called the Capital Planning Forum which meets regularly to vet & approve Directorate bids for any service improvements including medical equipment. The group comprises the Director of Facilities, the Director of Finance (obviously!) & several other managers including myself. The group is only interested in the “big picture” aspects of planning capital spending.
The Trust is now in the process of setting-up a Specialist Procurement Group, consisting representation from Supplies, Estates, Medical Engineering, Infection Control, Clinical Risk Management etc. It is hoped this group will ensure that any bid submitted for new capital equipment (including medical) has been fully thought through & includes things like installation, revenue (including staffing), maintenance, user training, decontamination, consumables, COSHH, etc. This group will explore the fine detail of the bid before sending it to the Capital Forum. That's the plan anyway! It would be nice to think that as a result of this I could get some increase to my budget if my department took on the maintenance responsibility for additional items of medical equipment..…..
All equipment items bought out of Directorate's revenue budgets are referred to me by Supplies before purchase.
