At a time when, with less capital funding available for purchasing high value hospital equipment, NHS board-level and financial personnel may be tempted to sign off purchase of equipment that, while meeting minimum HTM and other standards, may offer compromised performance, especially over time, two key sales and product personnel at leading medical gas equipment supplier, BeaconMedaes, told HEJ editor Jonathan Baillie that "investing a little more" initially would reap considerable longer-term dividends, in payback, lifespan, and patient safety terms.