What's in a name? Personally I don't care about the name - but for regulation that's what is protected. Not everyone working in maintenance "just fixes kit" - although I have seen a couple of departments where technicians are organised like a battery-hens in little cubicles where equipment is fed to them by the supervisor just like they're in a factory.
Perhaps a look at the VRCT scope of practice is in order. The VRCT has to cater for a wide range of roles within medical engineering. To do this there are always going to be individuals who feel they don't cover all of the scope.
Attitudes and approaches to the provision of services very much depend on the way individual departments are organised, the range of skills within it, the people managing it, etc, etc. Most importantly what the demand is from the operators, i.e. clincians, Nurses and clinical technicians, i.e. clinical physiologists, etc.
It would be useful if customers knew what they could expect from departments like ours wouldn't it? A similar level of basic services provided by technicians; trained and qualified to a similar level who could give the same level of support perhaps?
