Membership News

The DIAG was a key outcome from the Minister of State for Health’s Diagnostics Industry Roundtable held earlier this year, which focused on the collaboration with industry that is needed to achieve our diagnostics transformation ambitions. The group is expected to provide a vehicle for early engagement, giving industry sight of the evolution of the diagnostic transformation programme and the…

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…

BIVDA attended the APPG for Life Sciences third event of the year on Tuesday centred around the ‘Data Saves Lives’ Strategy first published in June. This was an opportunity to engage parliamentarians and facilitate sector discussions on the use of digital technology and health data for the benefit of patients, industry and the NHS. The roundtable event was hosted by…

The North East Innovation Lab, part of Newcastle Hospitals, has a well-established set of services to support developers in ‘testing the tests’. The team outside the Biosphere, in Newcastle Helix life sciences quarter Our services include independent evaluations for new and emerging diagnostics including analytical performance and clinical performance evaluations, developing test protocols and providing control materials, and human sample…

BIVDA’s Regulatory Affairs Manager Ashleigh Batchen is to join a webinar based on the UKCA Mark and other regulatory topics of note to life science companies on 20 July. This inaugural webinar hosts an exciting discussion between experts from across the sector. Eclevar have confirmed panel representatives from BSI, ABHI, BIVDA and FIND. Amongst them, there is a wealth of…

Westminster Health Forum is hosting an online conference on the future for life sciences in the UK. BIVDA Chief Executive Doris-Ann Williams is pleased to be joining the event, and will be speaking on the topic: ‘Personalised, preventative and predictive healthcare - improving access for patients, innovation in diagnostics, AI and use of data, and the contribution of the life…

BIVDA has published a position paper outlining the challenges and issues related to the unsustainable zero inflation policy of the NHS and other public bodies. Cost pressures that are affecting the global and domestic economies and the cost-of-living increases for consumers are also affecting UK businesses, and it is clear that this is reaching the point that members cannot absorb…

Helen and Michael represented BIVDA at this year’s Procurement for Health (P4H) conference event at the NEC in Birmingham on Thursday. The day was a fantastic opportunity to meet with strategic health buyers, purchasing managers, procurement clusters and NHS Trust partners to discuss important issues affecting health procurement such as the new layout of ICSs enacted in the Health and…