OK ... I'll answer my own question:- NPF is just one of the code options to report when closing a Work Order. What the "bosses" do with that information (if anything at all) is a matter for them.
Somehow I can't see the excuse:- "we didn't bother doing PM because the staff don't know how to use the kit anyway" ... leading to:- "OK, let's disband the biomed department" as being valid points, George.
I would suggest that "tech savvy clinicians" of the type you are lauding there could also be regarded (by some) as "folk fiddling about with the kit". Frankly, I can't see that going down too well in NHS hospitals. Enthusiastic amateurs don't really sit well with "dedicated professionals", unfortunately.
Meanwhile, biomeds are not there to police the hospital (however much some may wish that were the case), but rather as a support service providing tech support to the clinical users (and, hopefully,
not the weakest link). What the surgeons
et al get up to is a matter for them, senior management, and the (various) Regulatory Bodies.
@Mike: point taken (or rather, bounced off Rhino hide) ... but where are your own comments (additions to the debate) ... especially those about how to present the evidence for Evidence-Based PM? Is it a concept you are familiar with? Do you feel it has any merit? And if not, why not (
etc.)?
