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Hi,

MDD 93/42/EEC gives a pretty comprehensive outline of what the term "medical equipment" means.

Why doesn't your department look after telecoms equipment anymore?

Our technicians are qualified in electronics, electrics, mechanics, audio visuals and telecoms.

If our Trust wants to look after its own telecoms, we are ideally placed to take it on.

EBME land shouldn't have strict boundaries.

Technology evolves, so should we.

Cheers
Mark

posted 28 October, 2005 11:13 PM
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So, if your department is like mine, under maned/womened, under resourced and perhaps can't keep up with the ppm's... do you, where new equipment is concerned, check it thoroughly..ish?
So, perhaps we should get, as part of the purchase agreement, the supplier to commission their own equipment. I'm not talking about TENS units.

Cheers
Mark

Remember the thread you started on the possibility of cutting corners on acceptance testing (batch-testing) medical equipment, because your department apparently didn't have the manpower, a while back, Mark? :p

Cheers,

Richard.

Richard,

Trinny and Susanne are currently at work in our department.

Cheers

Mark

Are they both "hands-on" then?

Richard,

Refreshingly, yes.

Cheers
Mark

Richard

Some people would class a phone or bleep, as a medical device.

It's used by doctor's ---- And broken by nurses!

That's like saying anyone who works in a hospital is a Doctor or a Nurse

I can see it now air ambulance lands, call put into EBME to say that it is now available for us to go and do it's 10000hr service.

Most departments have got technical ability to cover work outside of their remit, but it is as Richard says very few of us have the resources to even contemplate additional work as the work we are employed to do falls behind.

We used to do almost everything electronic in our hospital from paging system, telephone exchange through to TV's faxes etc. It came about when the internal market was introduced and we were all vying for work. The "E" in EBME used to stand for "electronics" at our place i.e. "Electronics and Bio Medical Engineering".
Luckily we have been able to shift most of the non medcial stuff to facilities and estates depts. They have simply put the work out to external contracts something we were not alowed to do. Freeing us up to reduce our PPM backlog to thousands instead of tens of thousands!(slight exaggeration). By losing the non medical c**p we have also lost the "E" in front of our department title and sit proudly as BME.