Membership News

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…

As mentioned in last week’s update, UKHSA has answered the questions raised at the webinar jointly held with UKHSA, ABHI and BIVDA on Monday 21st March. There has been progress on applications and various updates since the webinar was held and some of the questions asked clearly reflect a moment in time. The original Q&A document was sent to UKHSA…

On Monday, a free webinar was held on NHS Net Zero transformations, and how to Comply with Tender Requirements. On the agenda was carbon footprint calculation, compliance with PPN06/21, producing a compliant carbon reduction plan for tenders. Please find here the slides from the event, and the recording can be viewed here. A Q&A sheet with responses to questions on…