At EBME Expo 2025, CSJ caught up with Iain Threlkeld, Head of Clinical Engineering at the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust to discuss the latest EBME thought leadership workshop, which brought together clinical engineering department heads, from across the UK, to discuss the key challenges currently facing the sector.
First held at EBME Expo in 2024, the workshop has proven to be a great success – encouraging the exchange of ideas, first-hand experiences, and practical solutions to common issues. Attendees of last year’s event took away ideas that they could introduce into their own departments, and the workshop for 2025 continued this theme. In this exclusive interview, you can hear more about the work that is underway to encourage collaboration, the exchange of ideas, and the sharing of knowledge.
High on the agenda at this year’s workshop was connectivity of medical devices and IT integration. Attendees discussed the challenges in bridging the gap between clinical engineering and IT teams and shared their ideas on how to break down some of the barriers. To address the evolving demands of the profession, EBME Expo also introduced a Connectivity Stage, this year, underscoring the importance of addressing the challenges of integrating HealthTech into hospital networks to provide clinicians with a centralised and real-time view of patient data within the hospital and beyond.
Ultimately, the discussion points of this latest workshop will help inform the agenda of the next ‘EBME Expo Leaders Network’ which will be held in Birmingham. The first gathering of the ‘EBME Expo Leaders Network’ brought together a select group of influential leaders from the healthcare technology industry, at the Cinnamon Club, in Westminster, to drive innovation and to collaborate on achieving key objectives in the field of EBME. You can read a report on the first gathering at: Leading medical engineering into new frontiers
To read a summary report on last year’s EBME thought leadership workshop, visit:
Thought leaders highlight EBME challenges
CSJ will be providing in-depth coverage of this year’s workshop discussions in the September edition.
