Interviews
EBME Expo 2024 - Jamie Grimshaw, Managing Director, Erbe
Jamie Grimshaw, Managing Director, at Erbe, discusses:
- Strategies for maintaining uptime of medical devices.
- How NHS Trusts can outsource maintenance services to help ensure patient safety, maintain uptime of services, reduce costs and improve efficiency.
- The importance of ensuring the safety of patients and staff during electrosurgery.
- How robotic technology is advancing and Erbe’s R&D collaboration in this area.
- The convergence of advances in electrosurgery and imaging technologies.
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EBME Expo 2024 - Esther Coleman, Senior Product Manager, Idox
Esther Coleman, Senior Product Manager, at Idox, highlighted the potential for tracking software, both within the hospital setting and out in the community, to address some of the NHS’s key challenges.
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EBME Expo 2024 - Dr. John Sandham, Chairman, EBME
In this exclusive interview, EBME Chairman, Dr. John Sandham points out that one of the key challenges around the adoption of medical technologies is the current level of funding, with only 3.9% of NHS spend currently invested in technology. He calls for increased investment and explains why this is critical to the future of the NHS and to improve outcomes for patients.
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EBME Expo 2024 - Victoria Roberts & Eckard Gesell - Dräger
Victoria Roberts, Sales Director, Hospital Division, and Eckard Gesell, President, Global Services, from Dräger, discussed:
- Why connectivity and interoperability are vital to support patient safety and efficiency.
- How remote technologies are advancing care for patients.
- The role of technology in achieving the silent ICU.
- The importance of device utilisation analytics.
- How the MedTech sector has evolved post-Brexit and post-Covid, and the lessons that have been learned.
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IDSc Conference: Lisa Merryweather, Bolton Surgical
Lisa Merryweather, Field Sales Manager, Bolton Surgical, speaks to CSJ about the importance of implementing effective preventative maintenance strategies to ensure the quality and safety of instrumentation and medical devices, such as endoscopes, while striving to meet sustainability goals.
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IDSc Conference: Ellie Wishart, Senior Medical Affairs Manager at Nanosonics
Ellie Wishart, Senior Medical Affairs Manager, Nanosonics, speaks to CSJ about the importance of effective decontamination of ultrasound probes to prevent the risk of infection.
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Trevor Garcia, The National Chairman at the IDSc
Trevor Garcia, IDSc’s National Chairman, spoke to CSJ at the IDSc 2023 conference exhibition about the way forward for the decontamination sector. He highlighted the importance of ensuring the profession has a clear career pathway, and the need for action to ensure the future of the sector is secured, by attracting the next generation of decontamination scientists into the profession.
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Daniel Coole, Managing Director at Surgical Holdings
The importance of a circular economy and the opportunities to increase the reuse of surgical instruments and medical devices were high on the agenda at IDSc 2023. Clinical Services Journal spoke to Daniel Coole, Managing Director at Surgical Holdings, to find out how this can be achieved.
Speaking to Louise Frampton, the editor of CSJ, Daniel Coole highlighted the need to raise awareness to ensure that decontamination units fully understand the contribution that repair services can have in achieving a ‘circular economy’. Quality must be at the forefront, to ensure patient safety, however.
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IDSc highlights: Zoe Fayers-Rust, iM Med’s compliance division manager, speaks to CSJ
IDSc highlights: Zoe Fayers-Rust, iM Med’s compliance division manager, speaks to CSJ about key issues in decontamination – from training and apprenticeships, to sustainability…
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IDSc highlights: Judith Pilling, a qualified sonographer at Lumicare
Judith Pilling, a qualified sonographer, was asked for their views on how we can improve patient safety. Judith qualified in ultrasound at Leeds St James’s University Hospital in the early 90’s and obtained her Masters in 1998. She highlighted the risks associated with inadequate decontamination of ultrasound probes.
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IDSc highlights: Chris Hill, national sales manager at Getinge, speaks to CSJ
CSJ speaks to Chris Hill, national sales manager at Getinge, who has been in the sector for around 17 years and originally came from a military background.
He highlighted the fact that there is some exciting innovation in automation taking place in decontamination. There is a greater focus on quality and output, today, and the sector has come a long way in terms of quality and safety, in his view.
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