Medical Equipment Planning & Management

UMG has vast UK and international experience across the broad scope of equipment services from initial planning to full turnkey solutions and long-term managed equipment services spanning up to 15 years.

UMG UK have been, and are currently, involved in numerous PFI hospital projects either as a trust advisor or as part of a private consortia. We have gained invaluable experience and knowledge pertaining to the many complex equipping requirements and issues that impact the planning and implementation of PFI healthcare projects.

Clinical Technology Management (CTM)

CTM is a term used by UMG to describe the all-encompassing equipment planning and management services that UMG provides. These modular services can either be used individually or as a fully integrated package and are specifically designed for new build or renovation projects requiring the most cost-effective and clinically feasible transfer of assets and staff from other facilities.

Which CTM module or modules you opt for will depend on your strategic requirements, master plan and project status, and our project management approach allows those you select to be integrated within the construction programme. The key phases involved are:

• Equipment and transition strategy development
• Current asset review and transferability analysis
• Development of flexible equipment database
• Preparing schedules of components (room by room requirements)
• Producing Bills of Quantities (BOQ's) for equipment groups 1, 2, 3 & 4
• Drawing up equipment budgets and life cycle costs analyses
• Identifying responsibilities for equipment supply, installation /commissioning, maintenance and replacement
• Equipment specification development
• Identifying equipment utility requirements
• Interfacing with client to determine and refine equipment requirements
• Interfacing with architects and electromechanical teams to advise on equipment-related design issue

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• Ongoing refinement of equipment planning
• Detailed equipment pre-installation/utility data for site and contractor
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• Coordinating equipment review and approval
• Tender/contract preparation and review
• Equipment procurement and receiving
• Installation and commissioning
• Equipment relocation/transfer
• Equipment training

III- Managed Equipment Services (MES)

This programme provides a long term, cost-effective solution to your equipment needs by giving UMG full responsibility for all your medical equipment requirements.

The scope and extent these services can cover the supply, maintenance, upgrading and replacement of all the medical equipment your facility needs (including staff) in order to operate effectively over anything between five and fifteen years.

In addition to technical and clinical input into equipment acquisition and replacement decisions, we can also provide management and quality assurance support for your biomedical engineering department, using locally based biomedical engineers to ensure prompt response times for equipment requiring attention. On-site support and training for clinical staff in the use of the equipment is also available.

Throughout the programme, we pay particular attention to equipment-related risk management issues and quality assurance standards.

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