The "real" North West group (as opposed to Jims "Merseyside" group !)covers hospitals from Preston and Lancaster down to Macclesfield and from Blackpool over to Oldham. We meet quarterly, normally without a formal agenda and sometimes with a company making a presentation. Sometimes we invite speakers to do a presentation on a special topic - we've had Supplies, NHS Estates and the MDA, for instance.
We try and keep in touch with other groups, sometimes sending someone as a representative to their meetings and having someone sit in on our meetings - we even let Jim come to one of them - but once is enough !
What we need is at least one person from each regional group to come along to the Welch Allyn EBME Steering Group meeting in Birmingham - then perhaps we can really make a start at getting a National network going.
