What we need to keep reminding the masters is that an EBME Dept provides a mountain of other benefits to a trust.
As NHS employees we are interested in the best care to the patient, in most cases. And as such
will generally help out with a wide expanse of tasks, you try and get a contractor to do this without renegotiation taking place.
We also need to stand together and defend the ground we stand on when faced with the advance of any soursing that will ultimately not only cost more, but do less.
Many an industry has seen many such cases where contractors have taken over public services and look at the state there in trains, buses, roads,
to name a few.
On this note I will get off my soap box and make sure that I book the said box down as seen just in case a PFI contractor wants to give a quote for future maintance on it.
:p
