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Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Announcement on UKCA Marking (Non-Medical Devices) – Further Webinar Dates Announced

Following on from the BEIS announcement to introduce legislation to continue recognition of the CE marking and reversed epsilon marking until 31 December 2024, a further two webinars will be held on Monday 21 November 2022 for anyone unable to attend the previous webinar session on Wednesday 16 November. Please find the registration links below to register for either of…

Natalie CreaneyNovember 18, 2022

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BIVDA featured in MedTech Insight

Doris-Ann was quoted in MedTech Insight in an article which examined genomic testing access in the UK. The publication concluded that there was still much work to be done within the NHS to fully take advantage of genomic testing – pointing squarely at an ABPI report which suggests several recommendations. They also suggested that the UK can learn much from…

Natalie CreaneyNovember 18, 2022

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Scottish One Health Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance in 2021 report

Scottish One Health Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance (SONAAR) in 2021 report has produced a series of findings which may be of interest to members. Notable statistics include: Total antibiotic use in humans has decreased by 16.9% in Scotland since 2017 and have decreased by 8.6% in acute hospitals since 2017. Members can read the full report and the report…

Natalie CreaneyNovember 18, 2022

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NHSSC Pathology Retender – Draft Evaluated Line List

NHS Supply Chain have released their drafted evaluated line list for Lots 2-7. These are the products that will make up the financial evaluation and therefore suppliers are asked to check there is at least 1 item in each lot you intend to bid on that you can submit a product against. If there is no product specification that you…

Natalie CreaneyNovember 18, 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…

MichaelJuly 29, 2022

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Near Patient Testing – opportunities via the NIHR Community MIC (Oxford)

Still capacity for additional tests to go on the RAPTOR platform https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/research/projects/rapid-community-point-of-care-testing-for-covid-19-raptor-c19?70f0a6e6-099b-11ed-a464-06bfb1c3c94c TOUCAN project for NPTs for UTI is also running if anyone has tests where they would like to get independent patient data. Does anyone have a POC/NPT test for Vitamin D? This is a clinical need for secondary care identified in triaging paediatrics presenting with abdominal pain. Please…

Natalie CreaneyJuly 22, 2022

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Oxford University medical students seeks support for exploring IVD applications of quantum sensors

Please see the below request from Seth Howes to BIVDA member companies: My name is Seth and I’m a medical student based at Oxford University. I’m currently working with a group of students on the Student Entrepreneurs Programme (organised by Oxford University Innovation and Oxford Science Enterprises). We have chosen to work with a piece of IP that concerns quantum…

Natalie CreaneyJuly 15, 2022

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Request for expertise in the US IVD sector

Requests We are a UK based device manufacturing company, with a project to expand testing on one of our existing class I products. This would involve genotyping a number of samples in the UK as well as in the US. We are looking for a UK based consultant who would be able to pull together the UK data to present…

Natalie CreaneyJuly 15, 2022

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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…

MichaelJuly 1, 2022

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BIVDA’s 2nd Sustainability Seminar

Lisa Dittmar and Julia Farrington from NHS England and Improvement led a session discussing the requirements of the Supply Chain within the Evergreen Framework and looked at some of the potential ways that IVD could contribute to the Greener NHS and Net Zero agenda. Whilst there was a reminder of the Evergreen framework, this session was much more about the…

Natalie CreaneyJune 10, 2022