Hi there.
Well here's a can of worms, and its a real so and so to manage.
If your Organisation supplies equipment to the patient, then your Organisation is responsible for that equipment and (of course) those staff supplying the equipment are also responsible.
So, annual performance verification and electrical safety testing to ASNZS 3551.
This is hard to implement as you need to patient to bring in their equipment (thinking CPAPs and like here) for annual testing - of course you could extend this period to say two years (or even more) ASNZS 3551 allows you to do this.
I'm not talking about a home dialysis set up here - that is managed differently. And, yes the home electrical supply is upgraded in its area/room to Body Protected Electrical Area (ASNZS 3003) as well as water quality - its a complete mission.
Hire equipment - an item returning from a hire needs to be fully tested before it goes out on a new hire - this is the same medical equipment as it is for the hire shop 'down the road' where you hire a drill from.
Remember this is the same for equipment that your Organisation hires out as well as equipment hired in.
I would advise that you create a new "pool" or "Group" for your reporting as you don't want this hard to manage equipment "diluting" your KPI - especially when you have a few thousand CPAP's out there.
Any way back to work.
Phil in NZ
