title: The financial management of hospital equipment.
abstract: This paper outlines the main failings of the National Health Service in respect of its purchase and use of clinical and laboratory equipment. It emphasizes the need for proper inventories and demonstrates how they can aid the more efficient use of equipment by ensuring that all purchases within a Health District are co-ordinated and that named officers are responsible for individual pieces of equipment.
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom