Section 6.4 · Pillar 2 · Health Systems, Governance & Infrastructure Transformation
Equipment Maintenance Systems
Equipment failure treated as a patient safety issue, with preventive schedules and biomedical engineering capacity.
The issue
Equipment failure is a patient safety issue. Maintenance should include preventive schedules, biomedical engineering capacity, inventory logs, calibration records, repair response targets, spare parts planning, procurement quality standards, and decommissioning policies.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01Preventive schedules
- 02Biomedical engineering capacity
- 03Inventory logs
- 04Calibration records
- 05Repair response targets
- 06Spare parts planning
- 07Procurement quality standards
- 08Decommissioning policies
Implementation
What this domain requires in practice: the standard, the pack, the measurement, the tools and the evidence.
Standards
No approved ASQAT standards have been published for this domain yet. The standards layer is in place so that approved statements can be released without restructuring the platform.
Measurement
Measurement specifications for this domain are being developed. Indicator definitions are published only once the numerator, denominator and data source are agreed.
Measurement frameworkResources
Implementation resources for this domain are currently in development. Approved policies, procedures, checklists and tools will be released through the resource library.
Open the libraryAwaiting approved content
Evidence in practice
No approved implementation evidence has been published for this domain yet. Case studies are published only after review of what was measured and how.