Clinical Engineering Meeting

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals 23rd May 2012

Present

Chris Monk, Dave Guymer STH

Neil Porter, Sally Drew and Alison Sampson SHA

Aim

To consider progress of the clinical engineering component of Modernising Scientific Careers (MSC) across Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to date, gainoutline views of the enablers and barriers for this workforce group, and explore how to develop further regional engagement to address future workforce, education and training needs

Agreed Outcomes

Establish a regional network toprogress the clinical engineering component of Modernising Scientific Careers across Yorkshire and the Humber but target this at the largest workforce area, and for engagement purposes specifically name it a ‘Medical Equipment Management’ group

Identify the relevant Trust network contacts to form membership and any regional champions

Establish a task and finish group for one year initially, that links into the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Implementation group. This will consider the specific issues within clinical engineering for workforce, education and training, both currently and with transition to MSC

Set up an initial meeting and agree a chair from service to lead the group, with additional support for this role provided from the SHA

Maintain dialogue with the North West and North East Strategic Health Authorities to understand and share progress in establishing their clinical engineering groups. Consider the developments made by each region and whether merging of some or all activity within a northern cluster would be of benefit by April 2013

Medical Equipment Management Task and Finish Group

Initial considerations of remit and some outputs:

  • Identify the current workforce across Yorkshire and the Humber
  • Consider the future Trust workforce and identify and any broad changes
  • skill mix of the workforce
  • the impact of MSC
  • the ability to stay competitive with private equipment management providers
  • agenda for change banding
  • Review MSC programmes and national equivalence routes
  • Review MSC programmes and mapping of roles nationally, particularly for bands 3 and 4
  • Map the current workforce to the new MSC structures, and consider equivalence
  • Consider recruitment of the future workforce
  • Consider registration, in particular voluntary registration by IPEM
  • Profile roles and services delivered by the workforce to support awareness and marketing
  • Develop a question and answer sheet for this staff group to support some of the above to ‘sell’ MSC, recognise benefits and provide information relating to timescales
  • Consider the potential to link work from this group on MSC implementation to benchmarking of services across Trusts

Alison Sampson, Education Commissioning Development Lead,

Y&H SHA, June 2012