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How Our Future Health can support SMEs

The Office for Life Sciences is spotlighting how research organisations, namely UK Biobank, Genomics England and Our Future Health, can support SMEs. This week, they are highlighting the latter charity. Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, designed to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases. Their mission is to create an incredibly detailed…
Ben Kemp
August 26, 2025
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Apply for the Department of Business and Trade’s King’s Awards for Enterprise

BIVDA members may be interested in applying for the King’s Awards, the UK’s most prestigious business awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements in UK enterprise. Make sure to apply before the closing date on 1pm on Tuesday 9 September 2025. There are four categories: Innovation International Trade Sustainable Development Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility) The Awards are free to enter, and…
Ben Kemp
August 26, 2025
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NICE Webinar: Introduction to NICE healthtech evaluation

NICE is transforming its approach to healthtech assessment, but what does this mean for your technology? Join their online seminar on Tuesday 23 September 2025, 1pm to 4pm BST. Designed for healthtech developers and market access specialists, this interactive session explains NICE’s role in healthtech market access and how they support healthtech developers to get the best care to patients,…
Ben Kemp
August 26, 2025
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Join Task and Finish Group to rewrite BIVDA’s Code of Ethical Conduct

BIVDA are updating our Code of Ethical Conduct to ensure it reflects our position in 2025 and our commitments to MedTech Europe. Members have individually expressed an interest in assisting, therefore we are assembling a small group of volunteers to work on this document as a task and finish group. It will cover aspects impacted by product regulation and compliance,…
Ben Kemp
August 26, 2025
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BIVDA welcomes new member Mantara Health Ltd

  BIVDA are pleased to welcome Mantara Health as new members! Founded in 2020, Mantara Health Ltd has developed the first MHRA-registered, UKCA/CE accredited pharmacogenomic panel test for commercial use in the UK, validated and using the same algorithm as the Lancet-published Prepare study from February 2023. Over the last couple of years, Mantara Health has won the 2023 Start…
Ben Kemp
August 25, 2025
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Reminder: Pathology Managed Service Contracts Call for Evidence closes 5th September

A reminder to all members that the Pathology Managed Service Contracts Call for Evidence closes 5th September. BIVDA has pressed government on this issue for a long time. This, therefore, provides a crucial opportunity to help DHSC with the development of policy guidance in this area. We are encouraged by member engagement so far, following two webinars with Head of…
Ben Kemp
August 20, 2025
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BIVDA and members meet with Professor Sir Chris Whitty

On Monday 18th August, BIVDA chaired a meeting between Professor Sir Chris Whitty and his policy and delivery teams, and the BIVDA members who had been involved in an industry consensus statement entitled “Unlocking Our Communities Diagnostic Potential”. BIVDA’s report underlines the key opportunities to support the adoption of point-of-care testing in primary care and community care settings. Initially, when…
Ben Kemp
August 20, 2025
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Health Minister acknowledges BIVDA’s advocacy work to incorporate diagnostics into antibiotic prescribing

Steve Race MP, who authored the foreword to BIVDA’s Community Diagnostics Consensus Statement, has confirmed that Health Minister Ashley Dalton has formally acknowledged the report. The Minister expressed her thanks to BIVDA and our partner organisations for championing the adoption of diagnostic testing to support appropriate antibiotic prescribing, and commended BIVDA’s wider efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). She also…
Ben Kemp
August 20, 2025
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Contribute to academic research on single-use diagnostic waste

Academic researchers are seeking contributions on the the research topic, “Towards an Eco-Friendly Future for Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip and Point-of-Care Devices”, to be published in Frontiers in Lab on a Chip Technologies. It now has extended its submission deadline to 31 October 2025. They are calling for engineers, economists, healthcare professionals, manufacturers, regulators and policy makers to join forces and work…
Ben Kemp
August 19, 2025
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WHO releases TPP for IVDs for serious bacterial infection, including neonatal sepsis, among young infants

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a target product profile (TPP) for serious bacterial infection among young infants. This includes neonatal sepsis, which kills 15% of the estimated 2.3 million newborns who die annually. It is estimated that 84% of newborn deaths due to infection could be averted through early diagnosis and appropriate clinical management. However, diagnostic tests for…
Ben Kemp
August 19, 2025
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