title: Equipment. Out of order.
abstract: The NHS has underinvested in equipment for more than 20 years. Most hospitals have inadequate equipment inventories. More than half the anaesthetic machines in use are more than five years old and should be replaced. Almost a fifth of the equipment used in cancer treatment is obsolete. Current accounting systems act as a disincentive to replacing old equipment.
authors.affiliation: Connolly Research.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Connolly
mesh_terms: D002202:Capital Financing; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics; D007445:Inventories, Hospital; D013222:State Medicine; D013660:Taxes; D006113:United Kingdom