Our colleagues at NHSI (national patient safety team) recently reviewed understanding of blood glucose analysers following a trigger incident reported to the NRLS and have asked us to share their feedback with all NAMDET members; Following an incident reported to the NRLS where the display terms on a blood glucose analyser were not understood and …
NAMDET is pleased to announce that the Conference 2018 booking page is now open. Please follow the link button on the front page that will take you directly to the website registration pages. This years evening dinner will also be held near the venue, and more details to follow soon
NAMDET are pleased to share the job opportunity working as a biomedical engineer assessor covering Midlands or South England. Our colleagues at AVENSYS have posted the job advert via this link; Medical Engineer Assessor Trainer – June 2018 Closing date is the 6th July 2018
NAMDET has linked all our news, posts and blogs to our mail-chimp service and hopefully we should be back up and running and you’ll get email notification when a new post, or item of interest has been added to the website. Please bear with us as it’s all a bit new, so apologies in advance …
Professor Harold Thimbleby (a speaker at many NAMDET events) has shared his insights into the importance of data recorders (black boxes) for medical devices and their benefits. Harold has long been a supporter of NAMDET and shared his research into human error, and post market surveillance as well as medical device error logs and how …
NAMDET are pleased to announce that this year’s conference sponsorship programme has been launched. Conference Sponsorship Information (1) We have a much larger venue, much more space for gold, silver and bronze exhibition stands. We are also pleased to announce that Specialist Publishers will be managing our sponsors and exhibition space for 2018. In addition …
General Data Protection Regulations: GDPR (UK) In May 2018 the GDPR (regulations) come into force and NAMDET is working with all parties to ensure we have secure and effective security in place for members and subscribers. In 2018 NAMDET’s website moved to a new ‘https’ safer protocol server and we only store members contact details …
NAMDET’s Chairman has been working with IPEM’s Clinical Engineering Special Interest Group in collaboration with IHEEM and NPAG to help develop the first ever training and education opportunities for new medical device maintenance staff, and this event aims to bridge the gap between the technical work undertaken and the clinical setting. 19 July 2018, Birmingham Using a …
Dear Namdet members, As part of an Independent Scholarship with the University of Derby one of our colleagues is looking into Risk based maintenance (RBM) with medical devices. One aspect is to understand the current position in UK hospitals regarding barriers, and strength of feelings towards RBM. Therefore could I kindly plead with you all, …
An interesting query has come in re: Bed rails, Gaps and ISO standards. To help share the discussion anew forum post has been set up to help members gauge opinion and share documentation and learning. ISO Standard refers to 22cm gap, but some new mattresses (and Air Pressure Devices) may differ greatly. Please check to …