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It's been compiled by NHS England so I can't really change it, I suppose I could do a tailored, supplementary PAQ though.

Why not show it on here - or link to it - so the Wise Ones can have a laugh critique it?

A middle finger emoji would have been handy here.

Dear gentlemen (I would informally call you colleagues, but I have not certified the university degree), here is my view from the 3rd or 4th world.
It is a overlapping interests scenario :
Manufacturers who from the perspective of "quality" obstruct access to maintenance information (knowing that in times of "lean cows" the sales structure survives from maintenance billing); in turn they ensure planned obsolescence.
Users who, for the "quality" of maintenance, seek direct contracts with the manufacturer; who rewards their loyalty with "courses", "paid stays" and "tickets" to training centers in vacation paradises.
Administration officials who apply legislation that forces the biomedical engineer to register (exactly register) the maintenance; keeping their chair warm. They only want to have the "phone number" of the external employee who should have solved the problem on time.
Education officials who base the teaching of the degree on the fact that "there are a sufficient number of institutions that by law must have a graduate" have a purely bureaucratic horizon.
Maintenance actors who try to apply and increase knowledge, criticizing or evaluating products and/or investment strategies; knowledge that is not welcome except in critical situations, and that only gives rise to a "pat on the shoulder" and some currency reward.
We are in a market of 46 e9 dollars in 2021 that will reach 65 e9 in 2030.

Yes; it's all about "money" and poor (weak) leadership. I have always taken the view that, as long as everything (all equipment) is covered, it does not really matter who maintains it. But just taking the easy (CYA?) but costly route of giving in to maintenance package offerings dictated by OEMs has never impressed me; especially when that means the local biomed(s) taking a back seat.

Never mind the university degree, Pablo ... your posts (like the one above) are always insightful and thought-provoking.

By the way, many of us on here (especially amongst the "old-timers" still around) don't have degrees; it was different world "back then". And, to be honest (although I may have been unlucky), many of the younger folk I have worked with (usually with paper qualifications higher than my own) have failed to impress. I can only conclude that (in the UK at least) the university degree has become very much devalued.

Yes to this, in droves (herds?). This has been the case for the last fifty years at least. It's a pity that OEMs don't factor in that ongoing revenue stream (that they contrive to keep flowing over the lifetime of the equipment) when they set their initial purchase price. But, there again, "Greed is Good" in many quarters.