Louis has had a chance to sleep and in doing so has come up with the following theory.
Imagine if the manufacturer of these medical devices provided us with their recommendations on the correct service procedures and service intervals for the kit in question. They could place instruction in a book, they could call this book a service manual. Its fantastically ostentatiously simple.
We as departments could then use these new technical bibles to help determine our annual PPM work load. We could then either invite the manufacturer to do this work for us, alternatively, we could undergo this work ourselves. We could employ technicians who may be on hand day and night to give our little intemperance’s who work so unassumingly in the Icu’s, Ward, ER’s, Theatres etc. technical guidance as and when they require it.
We could then employ managers to drop tons of manure on top of these technical wizards and stop them in their very tracks. Place them into labyrinths filled with bureaucratic waffle and see how much red tape needs to be unreeled before these once dedicated fine soldiers of the NHS crumble into bitterly neglected limpets. But alas my friends, this is Cool Britannia, could never happen in a million years.
Louis III
