I know this come as somewhat of a surprise to some ... but there is a "private sector" out there, you know! And I have yet to hear of any of the test equipment vendors refusing to accept money.
How many individuals have test or medical equipment that is theirs to sell
Well,
I do for starters. And, as far as I know, none of it has "fallen off the back of lorry", EBME or any other. I might add that I don't recall seeing any used test equipment with serial numbers conveniently missing (so stuff can be traced ... especially by the calibration shops).
Here's another surprise (how many can you handle in one go?):- there are also such things as
auctions. Ex-NHS, ex-military,
etc., etc. You buy your test kit, repair it if need be, get it calibrated ... and Hey Presto (Robert's your father's brother).
Lastly, I have come across many (and I mean
many) items of medical equipment (including test equipment) being sold at auction where the hospital obviously couldn't be arsed to remove their asset labels. The only conclusion I can draw there is that they cannot be too worried about any potential "come-backs"!
Once I even alerted my Old Mates in one NHS biomed shop about a particular item that I came across being loaded into a container on its way out to [censored]. Guess what? According to their "database" the kit concerned was still sitting in Outpatients (yes, so much for
their PM programme, then).
