IPEM Launches New Clinical Engineering Manifesto
IPEM has launched its new Clinical Engineering Manifesto at STEF (Science, Technology and Engineering Forum) on Tuesday 13 October.
Clinical Engineering will play a pivotal role in delivering the future's technology-enabled health safely, effectively and equitably. The Manifesto, titled Engineering the Future of Health across the UK, highlights the need for Clinical Engineering to be recognised as a strategic driver of healthcare transformation.
Through scientific leadership in technology adoption, research, innovation, data and system design, Clinical Engineering can advance health and wellbeing, support more sustainable healthcare delivery, and ensure that emerging technologies deliver tangible benefits for patients, communities and society. The Manifesto outlines IPEM's vision and call to action to harness this potential.
Our President, Mark Knight said: "Clinical engineers are doing an incredible job of ensuring that healthcare is delivered safely and effectively, and they are instrumental in ensuring future technologies will likewise be safe. The Manifesto outlines our vision for what the role of clinical engineering should be in the conversations about the future of healthcare, and will help to ensure that we are getting those conversations up into the right levels of decision making. This way our politicians, our government and other relevant bodies will know about the vital role the Clinical Engineering profession plays in delivering and progressing health, and they will be able to make informed and appropriate decisions about how we should be advancing healthcare."
This Manifesto has been developed by IPEM in collaboration with the Clinical Engineering community, drawing on the expertise and experience of colleagues working across healthcare, academia, innovation and the wider profession. The Clinical Engineering Manifesto Development Group, existing of Dr Anna Barnes, John Boulter, Prof Chris Hopkins, Mark Knight, Ladan Najafi, Prof Richard Scott, Prof Mark Tooley and Prof Paul White, played a significant role in shaping the vision and priorities of the Manifesto.