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*Urgent* Are MFA security functions affecting your service functions for remote access to lab equipment?

The NCSC first published guidance back in January this year urging Govt organisations to bolster their cyber security resilience, this included ‘improving access controls and enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA).’  This guidance was bolstered at the end of April when a joint advisory from the NCSC and international partners details the 15 most commonly exploited vulnerabilities in 2021.  The Cybersecurity &…
Ben Kemp
June 16, 2023
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BIVDA presenting at Reset Connect, London Climate Action Week on 27th June

BIVDA are delighted to have been asked to speak at Reset Connect, which is the UK’s largest sustainability ecosystem and green investment event and is the flagship event of London Climate Action Week. CAFA are hosting the Industry and Systems Hub at Reset Connect and have asked BIVDA to present: The Grand Challenge we are working on with CPI, to explore improving…
Dawn
June 9, 2023
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Sustainability Surgery: Tuesday 20th June

Following the success of the last Sustainability Surgery we are going to make this a regular member feature. The Sustainability Surgery is your opportunity to get one-to-one support from your Sustainability Programme Lead – Sarah Joy Newton. Members are invited to book themselves a 30minute ‘clinic’ appointment during which you can ask any questions you have around sustainability, including (but…
Dawn
June 9, 2023
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Doris-Ann to speak at HealthTech Integrates 2023

Doris-Ann is to speak at HealthTech Integrates 2023, being held in London on 20 June, in a discussion on ‘Realising the value of wellness’ alongside fellow expert speakers. The blurb for the event is as follows: ‘Leadership of the medtech/healthtech sector – with enhanced diagnostics, early detection, better understanding of disease causation and progression, when will the balance shift in…
Dawn
June 9, 2023
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Doris-Ann meets with CEO of Pathology Technology Australia

On Tuesday, Doris-Ann had the opportunity to meet with Dean Whiting, the CEO of Pathology Technology Australia (PTA). They face many similar issues to those BIVDA have, although for different reasons due to the differences in the health care systems. But certainly getting policy makers and politicians to understand that there isn’t healthcare without diagnostics supporting decision making is a…
Dawn
June 9, 2023
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BBC Radio 4 programme on human microbes

In this programme, which may be of interest members, Geoff Watts visits the Human Microbiome Project, sequencing the genomes of bacteria which live on our body to discover how they affect our health. The Human Microbiome Project aims to catalogue 3,000 microbes on our body and sequence their genes. The theory is that we have co-evolved with our microbes in…
Dawn
June 2, 2023
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IBMS release National POCT Guidance 2023

  The IBMS has collaborated with the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) and the Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine (ACB) to produce Point of Care Testing: National Strategic Guidance for at Point of Need Testing. The paper aims to communicate with those responsible for planning and commissioning novel patient services outside of traditional care settings. It outlines the strategic…
Dawn
June 2, 2023
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Reports round-up: Clinical Trials and Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies

Two important reports have been released in the last week: Lord O’Shaugnessy’s report into commercial clinical trials in the UK and Dame Angela McLean’s review into pro-innovation regulation of technologies. There are many very important recommendations in each paper which, if implemented, could have an incredibly positive effect on the industry.   Commercial clinical trials in the UK: the Lord…
Dawn
June 2, 2023