The private hospital sector in the UK is, shall we say, a bit limited.
Very few (private hospitals) are of sufficient size to justify a resident in-house biomed, let alone a biomed department
per se.
Private hospitals rely a lot on manufacturers service engineers (and why not?).
I know a bit about the inner workings of the Nuffield Hospitals, and would say that their techs (who cover an area, and travel around) are paid at the "going rate", as one would expect. That is, on a par with rates of pay in the NHS. Perhaps I should add also that biomeds working in private hospital scenarios tend to be experienced blokes who can be left to get the work done without "supervision" as such. Nothing to do with the "trainee" situation, in other words.
