Clinical engineering
Can they set up quality management systems designed to support medical devices, i.e. ISO 13485? As an engineering community, we need to learn how to apply these standards…Our engineers need to broaden their horizons and become more aware of standards that are out there,” he argued. He encouraged delegates to aim high
in terms of their career progression: “I’m a chartered engineer, an HCPC-registered clinical scientist, a chartered scientist and a fellow of the Academy for Healthcare Science. My wife jokes that I collect these things. I was talking to John Sandham, when we were planning this session – I don’t think either of us thought we would end up being professors. I really want to encourage you all, in whatever your role is; don’t sell yourself short. You have fantastic skill sets. You may feel like an imposter. I definitely feel an impostor as a professor. So, why did I do it? I wanted to share real- world skills with students who were doing biomedical engineering degrees or Masters or Doctorates. “I volunteered to become a Royal Academy
of Engineering Visiting Professor with Heriot-Watt University and the Royal Academy have a lovely phrase – they say, as a visiting professor, you’re not a ‘sage on a stage’, you’re a ‘guide by the side’. I think we have so many untapped skills within our clinical engineering teams – we need to share with our organisations exactly what our workforce is capable of doing.” With regards to professional registration,
there are a number of different bodies and Richard Scott encouraged delegates to consider which registration would suit them and their career: “Professional registration raises your profile. It gives you credibility and recognition. It signals the competence and commitment that you have and helps your career advancement – job descriptions are written and favour people who have it. I’m horrified at the number of really competent, capable, workshop-based technical staff who are not accessing senior roles. We need to change that because we’re missing out on some fantastic skill sets.” Richard Scott added that there is an opportunity for clinical engineering to proactively drive innovation within the health service: “A lot of small start-ups have some brilliant ideas, but they don’t know how to get them into the NHS. We need to have a ‘dating agency’ between innovative companies and the clinical engineering community and the wider healthcare scientists and clinicians in hospitals…It’s very difficult to switch to a new fleet of devices, but I think we need to
We all have a role to play in the proactive management of assets in our organisation. Stick your head above the parapet and get involved.
have a very proactive role in helping innovative companies navigate their technology into use. Addressing technological change is a key skill set we need to be thinking about and capable of doing. “In conclusion, I think clinical engineers have
a vital role to play in delivering and advancing healthcare by being proactive. I think we need to be really clear and have a discussion as a community about what is our clinical engineering service specification?...We need to converge innovation with our ‘business as usual’
equipment replacement activities. If we had time to hear all the fantastic ideas you have, and if those ideas could get traction, the NHS would begin to transform. “I encourage you to maximise your contribution
and career potential - keeping up to date with changes in international standards, in technology, in the wider NHS. I would consider professional registration because it plugs you into networks and wider communities. I would definitely take stock of your current skillset. We have focused on building our engineering skillsets, but we
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