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Media Monitoring: March 11th – 18th

New national role for former CQC chief inspector The former chief inspector of hospitals at the Care Quality Commission has been appointed chair of the UK National Screening Committee. Sir Mike Richards, who ran the Care Quality Commission’s acute inspectorate from 2013 to 2017, will take up the new role later this month for a three-year term Sir Mike led…
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March 18, 2022
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Government increases R&D budget to highest ever level

The Government has pledged to increase the UK’s R&D budget to £39.8 billion for 2022-25, the largest number in history. This funding has been allocated across the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and is intended to cement the UK’s place as a global science superpower. It is also hoped that this increased investment will spark even greater…
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March 18, 2022
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Travel survey and BIVDA meetings

We are looking forward to our AV/VC installation next week which should significantly improve the blended experience for us all. All of our meetings are scheduled to be blended unless advertised otherwise. All of our planned meetings for this year are scheduled already and can be found on the Eventbrite page and the upcoming ones are at the bottom of…
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March 18, 2022
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SAVE THE DATE! – Joint Working Party Seminar

For BIVDA’s 30th Anniversary year we are excited to be holding a working party seminar, MGM and Celebration dinner leading into our annual Regulatory Affairs Seminar on Wednesday 12th October 2022! The Regulatory Affairs Seminar will then follow the first days events on the following days 13th-14th October 2022. We will be holding working party autumn meetings on Wednesday 12th…
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March 18, 2022
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Ukraine Update

BIVDA approached the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) directly to ask how member companies can best provide equipment to the people of Ukraine if they were able to. The DHSC responded by requesting a comprehensive list of items available for donation from interested member companies with details regarding: types of tests for donation, the number of tests available,…
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March 18, 2022
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BIVDA held our spring Procurement Working Party at the BIVDA offices in London.

The meeting was a blended meeting with speakers and members in attendance in person and virtually. We covered the Government response to the Procurement Transformation Green Paper, BIVDA submitted a response to the consultation last March. There are some interesting changes and there will be more information shared in due course. The basic outline of the changes are in the…
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March 18, 2022
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BIVDA attends the Diagnostics Strategy Ministerial Roundtable event

This week, Doris-Ann attended a Ministerial Roundtable event on the upcoming Diagnostics Strategy, an important plan for the future of UK diagnostics. In a pre-meet discussion the week before, it was decided that a Roundtable is the most effective and favoured manner of engaging with Government ministers on the Strategy. In June 2021 the Elective Recovery Team was tasked with…
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March 18, 2022