Erm - we'll have to see if we get a quotation for a decent replacement first, plus the funding to buy the new kit, and then hopefully nobody reverses the decision to fund it before we have actually got our hot little paws on the new machine!
Only then will we be able to start thinking about whether we keep the old machine as cover while the other is being calibrated, or sell it. If you want to buy anything from our hospital you now have to either go via the Hilditch auction or our Supplies department and a colleague of mine. A local scrap merchant was seemingly helping himself from the wards, and so we have tried to tighten the procedures here.
We used an alternative disposal auction before, but did not seem to give value for money - there were too many members of a chain getting a cut of the money, leaving us with very little return. We have now found a route with a decent return on used batteries, the copper from old mains leads, and Hilditch for whole medical equipment devices.
I hope Jandre can advise - ICBW but I thought he was using his PC to check equipment before? In the high temps and humidities he experiences as he travels, that might have been a sensible alternative to the sensitive SLM equipment out there.
