According to reports from NHS Scotland, over £1.13m worth of hospital furniture equipment has gone missing from hospitals in the last year. This is due to people stealing the equipment when they are in the hospitals – a terrible crime but something that happens all too often. The items stolen include laptops that can often hold sensitive patient information, medical equipment and even hospital furniture.

Medical equipment can be expensive and needs to be purchased through a specialist medical equipment supplier. These companies are experts in the equipment needed and are a key part in the supply chain for hospitals, universities, doctors surgeries etc. Nursing equipment is also a large part of what they offer for nursing homes, children’s homes and hospices.

Budgets are already extremely tight in the NHS, and medical centres have featured heavily in the press recently whether it be hospital staff reporting being badly paid and overworked, shabby hospitals, or waiting times at an all time high. The NHS is also undergoing reforms in the UK and it has had what has been called its tightest ever budget settlement. The pressure is growing and many questions have been raised about whether the level of care is good enough.

It’s not good news in the health industry at the moment, and missing and lost medical equipment, stolen by the very people the system was designed to help, is certainly bad PR and a very sad state of affairs.

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