Membership News

BIVDA now has over 200 members from the IVD industry and can confidently liaise with stakeholders as the voice of the industry. We are in a unique position in being the representative Association for around 95% of IVD companies operating in the UK. The structure of our membership spans across spin outs and start-ups, through to multi-nationals across all disciplines,…

This week, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid set out the Government’s plan to tackle the elective care backlog. Included in the plan were several points which will most definitely be of interest to those in the diagnostics sector. In his speech in Parliament, Mr Javid began the section on diagnostics by heralding their importance,…

There have been a number of approvals which are set to be released imminently, so members should review the approved list which can be found at CTDA - approved-products Over the Christmas period, most suppliers have provided the outstanding requested information and those are still in the evaluation stages. There are approximately a dozen suppliers that have been rejected, but…

On the 25 January 2022, the National Covid-Testing Cell wrote to Pathology Incident Managers and laboratories across England informing them that funding was to be made available for Trusts using point of care devices. The funding is to fund interface software to middleware and/or middleware itself to aide connectivity to electronic patient record. Trusts are required to complete a business…