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NICE guideline on Urinary tract infection in under 16s: diagnosis and management

This final guideline has now been published on the NICE website. You can also find the supporting evidence, tools and resources as well as all the stakeholder comments that we received during consultation and the responses to these comments. NICE have also produced an equality impact assessment to support the guideline. There is brief information about the guideline for people…
Michael
August 12, 2022
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Will you be at Medica? DxPx EU. Startups & industry partners save 80% on partnering tickets before August 13!

DxPx is a new organisation trying to get investors and business exchanges running in the IVD sector. They had a side conference at AACC last week and they will be running this at the Messe alongside Medica. There are a limited number of tickets reserved for our Super-Early bird Special for the European DxPx Investor & Industry Conference on November…
Michael
August 5, 2022
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New Funding from Dstl on diagnostics for chemical, biological weapon victims

New £1 million funding from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is available for innovative diagnostics that identify and can help treat people exposed to biological and chemical weapons within one hour. Exposure to biological or chemical agents still represents a key issue for deployed personnel. Outputs from this competition that rapidly detect agents and enable quicker treatment will…
Michael
July 29, 2022
Digital Working PartyDigital Working Party Archive

Apply to the Health Tech Challengers Pitch Competition!

Health Tech Challengers is a global pitch competition which rewards disruptive digital health-tech start-up companies with equity-free prize money, global media exposure and the chance to be brought to the attention of 100+ VCs and CVCs. The prizes aim to drive digital health forward, award innovation in the sector, and pioneer the healthcare breakthroughs of tomorrow! To enter, start-ups must…
Michael
July 29, 2022
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Joint NHSA & UKRI ‘Diagnostics Summit’ – Update from Doris-Ann

On Monday Doris-Ann joined the ‘Diagnostics Summit’ being hosted by the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) together with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI – the names for the nine UK research councils, including the Medical Research Council and Innovate UK). The objects for the day were to look at all the innovation activity going on and to discuss the role…
Michael
July 15, 2022
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Diagnostics and the new NHS Webinar

The brief for the webinar was to discuss what the main drivers and challenges are for Diagnostics, what role Diagnostics has in the COVID-19 recovery and backlog and how decision making will work in ICS’s and ICB’s, focusing on where pathology networks fit, who are the customers and where the balance of power is. We highlighted that Diagnostics was made…
Michael
July 8, 2022
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Innovate UK’s ‘Fast Start: Innovation’ grant programme to support SME sustainability

Innovate UK is offering small and micro businesses a share of up to £30 million in grants alongside tailored business support delivered by Innovate UK EDGE. You can apply for up to £50,000 for highly innovative ideas that have a clear route to commercialisation through business growth. **Applications do not open until Monday 11 July 2022. Your project must lead to…
Michael
July 1, 2022
Member RequestsMember Requests Archive

Pro-Lab seeks to expand technical sales teams with new field-based recruitment campaign

Please see a message from Pro-Lab Diagnostics on their new recruitment drive. All of us here at Pro-Lab Diagnostics are delighted to announce an imminent expansion in our field based technical sales teams to accommodate and number of exciting new product lines, some of which we started introducing over the last two years. Field based positions are being added to…
Michael
July 1, 2022
Regulatory Affairs Working PartyRegulatory Affairs Working Party Archive

BIVDA’s blended Regulatory Affairs WP Meeting attracts fantastic attendance

On 1 July, the Regulatory Affairs Working Party met during a blended meeting to consider and learn about the enormous shifts in IVD regulation taking place. Over 100 attendees joined online or in-person, making it a record attendance in the group's history. On the agenda were developments such as the newly published MHRA consultation responses on the UK medical devices…
Michael
July 1, 2022