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Sorry for not replying to the post from 8.30 this morning, only the reason we have the time to work on the bleep system is that we work during the day, and don't have time to sit posting on the internet all day!

If your manager's job title is EBME and Telecommunications Manager, is it not out of the question to be involved with telecommunications!

Alan M, RE:

What's this then?

posted 07 November, 2006 03:18 PM
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Dear Colleagues

We (My EBME Department) have devised a quick fire quiz question following a discussion my colleague had with his young son. Out of interest we would like to share it with you.

Please have as many guesses as you like, this question is designed to be answered under exam conditions!

Convert: AEF8 Into Binary Form.



Points will be given for effort!

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Rock the boat.... Get yer coat!

Pull the other one - it's got bells on it!

Assuming then, hypothetically speaking etc... an EBME department that has the capacity(well run and RISK centered) to take on telecoms and a Trust that prefers not to outsource work - could telecoms sit comfortably within the remit of EBME?

Cheers
Mark

Of course it can - we're all trying to scratch a living out of the NHS, eh? Actually I don't think that EBMEs are required in hospitals that are prepared to throw money into contracts and 3rd party maintenance of medical equipment. Especially when there are those whose preferences lie towards paper-pushing and de-skilling so that their jobs are protected.

Any other strings to the EBME bow can't be a bad thing if the resources are there to support it. I guess that, in practical terms, EBMEs taking on other stuff like telecoms, where the failure of communications is likely to be more dramatic than failures or problems with medical devices (yes, I'm being serious), is actually more useful to a hospital.

Richard,

The risk of failure of communications is where I'm steering this topic.

Cheers
Mark

Hmmm. I'm not dwelling on that particularly - if the risk was that high your hospital would find the money (like they all do when it comes down to it - as if by magic) to pay top-whack and get the "real experts" in (no offence intended). At the moment it's just probably convenient to have EBME doing it since it saves someone in the upper echelons having to worry too hard about coordinating contracts, etc (and the job is being done to everyones satisfaction, currently, of course).

As soon as the staff in EBME, that are skilled at doing it, leave or the SH1T hits the fan then they'll soon have the responsibility off the department. If they can do a similar thing with medical kit, i.e. privatise and put medical engineering services (hard services) out to tender, etc, they can get someone else in to do telecoms (soft services).

Lets just say that EBMEs are in existence, for the time being, because there's nothing much cheaper or better on the horizon and management need to have people (at least on paper) on site who are seen to be maintaining certain types of kit to give them a bit of "insurance" or an "easy" option.

Richard,

'nough said. It's amazing how a Trust in financial pooh has a bottomless capital budget - I must have read that somewhere or someoneone mentioned it in passing or I dreamt it. Can't be true, pie in the sky...

Anyway, a good contingency plan would be to have more than 3 people trained up in a particular high risk category.

Cheers
Mark

Mr Ling

At our hospital we are signed up to a form of legislation that im sure if you checked (which im sure you will! ) most places are. We have what is called a "Tea-Break" system, where after several hours toil we are allowed to conduct short experiments involving the passing of electronics through a definely sized metal bar, that is submerged in water and in a confined space!

This usually take place twice daily (Once in the A.M. and once in the P.M), however due to the flexible way in which we work (i.e. we don't ignore job's because it is tea-break) the times of said break can occasionally be shunted around to best fit the needs of the service! (And sometimes we don't even get time to fit them in at all! )

Im surprised you have not heard of such legislation, I think it was in the bible, or the Geneva Convention... Something Like That...