I still believe that we, as biomeds, need to be on site to give that first line response, you know the jobs, changing the lamps in the lightsource to stop the whole endoscopy list being cancelled. Not big money jobs but need a "man what can".

All that PM work that could easily be outsourced pays our wages to be on site to do the silly jobs.

These silly jobs that we have seen in the PFI schemes means it costs £120 to change a light bulb.

Outsourcing just means another layer of "profit" to be paid out to someone somewhere.

( time to put soapbox away and crawl back to my broom cupboard and do those nebs....)