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I am proposing a position for an engineer thus making an investment by saving contract cost to be able to support ultrasound , audiology along with endoscopy. Willing to invest in courses but also this is a general email to see what is the expectation in both money and interest from colleagues.
What is the general feeling around this ??
Paul

You might be able to show a saving for a year or two (assuming, that is, that you can find and recruit a tech with the skills required) ... but then, a couple of years down the line, how can you be sure that the guy will want to stick around?

An ultrasound guy will most likely be already working with one of the servicing companies (and therefore probably quite well paid). Audiology is a specialized area; as is endoscopy to a certain extent. A guy with good experience of all that stuff is likely to be quite "marketable", I would have thought. How are you going to attract such a person?

cant really say i've done much relating to ultrasound, but unless you already have facilities in place for calibration of audiometry i think you'd be hard pressed to financially justify hiring anyone with that role as a major part of their job. its not a cheap thing to set up and you'd need to take on work from surrounding hospitals to get back the money, even then i would think it would be several years before you saw the saving.

I can but concur with the above post!

See also Sean's recent post.

Endoscopy (Electromedical) it's justifiable to make some savings playing the game - however Audiometers and ultrasound can be costly to pursue in every term.

Regional centers work well in this area, hub-supporting other Trusts for Audiometers and Ultrasound. Obviously basic QA checking of things like bladder scanners are realistic with test kit, but looking at supporting the range of diagnostic ultrasound devices in a DGH or equivalent I feel would be too challenging without substantive investment.

Regarding the calibration of audiometers - I just came across this.