Medical Equipment Testing and Calibration ensures that medical equipment is in full working order, and is calibrated to a known standard ensuring that the readings are accurate at the point of delivery to a patient in line with manufacturers tolerances. It is your responsibility as a medical professional to ensure that your medical equipment is in full working order and maintained through a schedule of annual calibration. If your establishment is a GP Surgery, Medical Centre, Hospital, Ambulance Service or Care Home then you will be subject to CQC (Care Quality Commission) inspections and auditing in which case you will be expected to evidence that your medical equipment calibration has taken place annually. Ultimately the process of medical equipment calibration is ensuring as far as is reasonably possible that your medical equipment is fully functioning and accurate. The consequence of inaccurate medical equipment could be a misdiagnosis of a patient’s condition or misprescribing due to an inaccurate reading. Both of these consequences can have serious impacts. You have a responsibility to your patients and clients to ensure that your equipment is safe, accurate and reliable at the point of use. It is important that you use an established, professional and audited company to complete medical equipment calibration at your establishment. Optimum Medical Services Ltd are ISO9001 accredited, issue UCAS traceable calibration certificates, are Safe Contractor approved and use experienced fully trained field-based calibration engineers who are all fully DBS checked. Even if the piece of medical equipment is relatively new if a piece of equipment has been dropped or is vibrating or making any type of abstract noise. Or even if it has recently been transported are all reasons that an additional calibration prior to use should be carried out.