Constituted as a managed equipment service mes contract the deal is one of 12 such arrangements between the company and various uk nhs trusts with several more still under negotiation.
Managed equipment services nhs.
Genmed is a provider of vendor neutral flexible scalable managed services to the nhs health boards and private healthcare organisations in the uk and europe and to the wider public sector in the uk.
Historically the british national health service nhs trust always owned and directly managed its own medical equipment but starting from 2000 the tendency to outsource management of equipment to specialised mes companies grew rapidly especially in the fields of radiology and clinical pathology the latter with the equipment suppliers that also provide products and consumables for tests.
This healthcare partnership typically covers a period of 10 25 years sometimes longer for a fixed annual fee.
It includes the ancillary provision of equipment together with the service of operating and maintaining that equipment and it includes utilities when provided as a part of the whole package and paid for within the single unitary charge.
Department of health nhs.
Department of health nhs.
This company will provide the expertise to purchase install train users manage and maintain a portfolio of medical equipment on a long term basis.
Department of health nhs.
Indeed the mes model for hospital equipment supply is proving to be a potential boon for cash strapped nhs trust procurement departments.
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Managed equipment services mes is the outsourcing of all aspects of medical equipment to a third party company that specialises in providing this type of service.
With a managed equipment service the provider doesn t simply just sell the healthcare technology they provide a full managed service for a fixed monthly or annual fee.
Or healthcare facility where all services relevant to that facility short of medical and nursing services are supplied to the nhs by the managed facility provider.
The managed equipment services framework for diagnostic imaging radiotherapy and cardiology equipment is a new innovative framework that offers nhs trusts procurement expertise along with legal consultancy to enable complex and high value contracts to be awarded.
All managed service offers under the nhs sbs frameworks include provision for own equipment manufacture oem and vendor neutral options.
This heading is concerned with the provision of a fully operational managed hospital.
