United Healthcare provides full Managed Equipment Service (“MES”) solutions for medical and non-medical equipment. Key benefits of implementing MES include:

• Guaranteed replacement of all managed equipment in line with an Equipment Replacement Plan ("ERP")
• Enhanced financial management and planning as a result of consistent   equipment-related costs
• Reclaim of VAT on equipment purchased indirectly via MES
• One central point of contact for all equipment-related services via the MES Help Desk
• Payment-linked performance regime for purchase, maintenance and repair of equipment· integrated MES and Picture Archive and Communication (“PAC”) systems
• Management of risks in line with Controls Assurance Standards

Elements of our service include:

• Provision of funding for the purchase of new equipment and  management of its procurement
• MES strategy development in partnership with the Trust, including agreement of ERP, output specification and equivalency principles
• Transfer of equipment from the Trust realising capital for other  developments
• A Help/Fault Reporting Desk
• Equipment management and reporting systems
• Procurement and acceptance testing of equipment, in partnership with Trust departments
• Comprehensive maintenance and repair of all managed equipment to an agreed output service specification
• Planned Preventative Maintenance Management
• Dealing with MDA notices
• Commissioning & decommissioning of equipment
• Insurance of all managed equipment
• Safety management in accordance with established national standards
• Ongoing user training