Dr JOHN SANDHAM argues that effective implementation of Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) is crucial to saving lives and reducing costs.
The NHS is struggling to fund replacement of healthcare technology. This is an issue recognised by all NHS acute hospitals. From my research across multiple NHS acute hospitals it is clear that hospitals are ‘making do’ with old technology and this impact’s on patient care and increases costs.
Hospitals have always faced fundamental questions of patient safety, care, and budgetary concerns. There has been increasing recognition, recently, of the serious issue of medical devices management, covering the areas of procurement, training, maintenance, and governance. Procurement conduct for these organisations can be redefined – making training, maintenance, and governance easier to achieve, thereby reducing risk and cost.
Poor procurement leads to variation and ultimately higher risk to the patient. This is recognised by research carried out by the World Health Organization.
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