Many hospital engineering departments deliver clinical egineering service activity in addition to traditional Estates and Facility type services

For instance in the NHS EBME or medical engineering technical support services is often part of the estates department.

Why should this be the case, one discipline under the other, usually EBME under Estates never the twain shall meet ?

This often sits uncomfortably with EBME engineers who feel the specialist nature of the discipline merits an autonomous structure, However, we feel Device and Infrastructure Maintenance Services can go hand in hand, any one we feel could manage the

Managed estates and equipment services in harmony, and it works too, biomeds are quite able to perform, with the right investment in training, maintenance tasks on the following:-