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John Sandham

John Sandham

Professor John Sandham, CEng, is Chairman of EBME Expo Ltd and ebme.co.uk and a leading UK expert in healthcare technology management with 35+ years' experience.

Sep 17, 2026

9:51
John, do you want to come in there with any thoughts on that? I
9:55
mean, I completely agree with what Nata just said, and she's stolen a lot of what I wanted to say.
10:03
But I think there's a roadmap.
10:05
think that's what Nata was pointing out that there is a roadmap map to this development and right at the start of that is a pre-procurement process is looking at how do we buy that is so important I did a piece of research about 14 years ago and it absolutely showed that a lack of standardization in the NHS was because there was a lack of planning around procurement And then the knock-on effect of that lack of standardisation led to more difficult maintenance, more difficult user training, and ultimately more risk.
10:40
And like you just said, Narta and Sally, the patient should come first.
10:44
So what should we be thinking about? We should be thinking about the NHS making it safer and better for patients, making it more clinically efficient.
10:54
And how do we do that through the new hospital programme? It's through pre-planning.

20 MINS LATER

31:04
And both needs to understand where gives and gets are in this relationship.

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