The Government have released their Design for Life Roadmap, their plan to build a circular economy for medical technology to increase resilience, drive growth, realise cost savings and improve sustainability.
As you will have read, Helen attended the launch event where she met with Baroness Merron to discuss the plan and how BIVDA can support Labour’s key missions.
Following the launch, Helen was asked by DHSC to author a piece which reflects on the impact of the Design for Life programme and the future of the In vitro diagnostics (IVD) sector, reaching their almost 300,000 followers. You can read it here.
The roadmap sets out the Government’s ambition to transition away from all avoidable single-use medical technology (medtech) products towards a functioning circular system by 2045 that maximises reuse, remanufacture and recycling.
The plan contains 30 actions to deliver our the Government’s 2045 targets, which will involve:
- driving positive behavioural change
- exploring new commercial incentives to provide circular medtech
- creating new standards to enable innovative products and services
- planning the decontamination and recycling infrastructure of the future
- establishing new collaborations to accelerate the emergence of transformative science
You can read the plan here.
