Maybe we (you) need to open up a new thread, Neil ... something like "Emergency Call-Outs I Remember"!
Don't forget that (believe it or not) there are many biomeds in the UK who have never been called out. That is, some (many?) hospital biomed sheds either don't
do On-Call at all, or else the burden is carried by just a couple of the blokes (volunteers?).
Hey Mate ... they don't know what they are missing, do they? It can be very "character building", as we know only too well!
Meanwhile, back to
this thread ... MES contractors
can do On-Call as well, just as long as it's written into the Contract (and, of course, paid for). And a few years back, I did PM in the Theatres over the Christmas period at a hospital in North London, where a well-known MES company remains
ensconced to this day! So
someone (NHS customer) must be happy with the MES Model (although I rather doubt that much Yule-tide PM goes on there these days)!
