The National Performance Advisory Group, a trading division of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, will be hosting a clinical engineering conference on 13 September 2016, at the Holiday Inn, Stratford upon Avon.
The provisional theme for this year will be: integration with IT and human factor design, with MHRA input and an update on GSI.
The event follows the success of last year’sconference – highlights included a presentationon ‘Accreditation in healthcare – opportunities and implications for clinical engineering’, by Peter Jarritt, Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Peter Jarritt addressed the differences between certification and accreditation, as well as the potential application of the developing iCEPSS accreditation standards. Links to international standards such as ISO9001:2008 and ISO15189:2012 were also explored.
