I agree Stephen, not much point of a waiver as the risk assessment would show this could impact patient safety. The priority is to maintain competencies, however, in this case other factors were involved and now time to catch up. Though it has been suggested that as the BBM has implicit knowledge their working without comp assessment is ok, as this happens on the wards too!

There are also concerns among BBMs that by having full competencies makes them available for routine bench working (which they would probably enjoy anyway!) but then they are unable to maintain other responsibilities.
Many thanks