Global Clinical Engineering Day
calling for Clinical Engineer to be added as an eligible occupation on the Health and Care Worker Visa, to help ease ethical overseas recruitment to the profession.
Q. How is clinical engineering changing as medical technologies become increasingly integrated, IT driven, and intelligent?
A. Clinical engineers have been required to have good IT skills for many years. Equipment is networked, linked through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and integrated with many IT systems including electronic patient records. Training programmes are available to train and support staff in these areas, but a greater working relationship with our IT colleagues is essential to ensure clinical engineers can continue to support their hospitals in these areas. Clinical engineers already have a wide range of skills and have proven to be very adaptable to challenge. Training and education programmes are evolving to include many of the skills required by the engineers of tomorrow and the clinical engineering profession will rise to meet whichever challenges are presented to it.
Q. How can we ensure clinical engineers are valued and given the recognition they deserve?
A. Clinical engineers demonstrated during the pandemic just how important they are in healthcare. Continuing to raise the profile of the profession and share the work clinical engineers do on a daily basis in the eyes of the public is important to help promote
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the profession. That’s why these clinical engineering professionals should be part of the senior management in hospitals as a matter of course. With the NHS increasingly investing in new technologies, such as AI, technical and scientific involvement at a senior level is essential to deliver a safe, high quality, value for money service. For those working as Clinical Technologists
in specialties such as bioengineering, moving to statutory registration would also emphasise that these are highly skilled professionals,
About Dr. Kidgell
Dr. Victoria Kidgell is a chartered Scientist with IPEM and current Chair of IPEM’s Clinical Engineering Special Interest Group (CE SIG). She also successfully completed the CSO WISE Leadership Development Programme (2019 cohort) and previously held the positions of Chair and Audit Coordinator in the Standards Committee for the Clinical Movement Analysis Society of the UK and Ireland (CMAS). She is also the Lead Clinical Scientist in the Medical Device Management Group (MDMG) within Clinical Engineering at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. Dr. Kidgell works with clinical teams to aid them in the procurement of medical devices, with a particular focus on the introduction of new and innovative technology. Her goal is to bridge the gap between clinicians and engineers, procurement, finance and IT. She is involved in projects to assess the suitability
who are relied upon to keep their patients, colleagues and the public safe.
For further details on the Institute of Physics and Engineering, visit the organisation’s website at:
https://www.ipem.ac.uk/
For details of the Institute of Physics and Engineering’s Clinical Engineering Special Interest Group visit:
https://www.ipem.ac.uk/ about/special-interest-groups/clinical- engineering-special-interest-group/
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of new devices to clinical practice within the NHS. She has a keen interest in sustainability, striving to help the Trust achieve the NHS Net Zero target. She is currently involved in the procurement process for the virtual wards programme within the South Yorkshire ICS.
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