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REMINDER: MedTech Strategy Webinar, featuring Doris-Ann – sign up now!

The DHSC Medical Technologies Directorate is hosting a webinar on Monday 6 March 2023 at 11:00 – 12:00 to promote the newly published Medical Technology Strategy (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medical-technology-strategy). The Government’s inaugural Medical Technology Strategy sets out how they will ensure the health and social care system can reliably access safe, effective, and innovative medical technologies that support the continued delivery of high-quality care, outstanding…
Ben Kemp
March 3, 2023
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Doris-Ann features on a The King’s Fund event panel and attends NAM meetings in Brussels

The King’s Fund held a conference ‘Meeting Demand: the changing picture of diagnostics’ on 16 November. There was a breakfast session before the official opening plenary focussed on Antimicrobial Resistance which was timely as it was just in advance of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week. The panel discussed how access to diagnostics in primary care needs to be improved as…
Ben Kemp
December 2, 2022
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Doris-Ann to speak at The King’s Fund’s “Meeting demand: the changing picture of diagnostics” event

BIVDA Chief Executive Doris-Ann Williams is to speak at The King’s Fund’s “Meeting demand: the changing picture of diagnostics” event on Wednesday 16 November 2022. She will be joined by other eminent speakers such as Chair of the Independent Review of Diagnostic Services for NHS England, Professor Sir Mike Richards and National Specialty Advisor Pathology for NHSE/I, Professor Jo Martin…
Ben Kemp
August 26, 2022
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Doris-Ann to speak at Kings Fund conference on the evolution of diagnostics

The Kings Fund, an independent think-tank focussed on shaping health and social care practice, has announced the sale of tickets for a diagnostics-centred conference taking place on 16 November. BIVDA’s Doris-Ann Williams is pleased to be part of the high-profile speaker panel at this ‘Meeting Demand: The Changing Picture of Diagnostics’. The event will explore key topics on increasing diagnostic…
Natalie Creaney
July 29, 2022
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Doris-Ann to feature on Westminster Health Forum event on ‘Next steps for the UK life sciences sector’

BIVDA CEO Doris-Ann Williams will be speaking at the Westminster Health Forum event titled: Next steps for the UK life sciences sector - policy and regulation, funding and investment, collaboration and the mission approach, evidence and clinical trials, and patient access to innovation’. The event takes place virtually on 19 July, and will be an opportunity to assess changes to…
Natalie Creaney
June 10, 2022
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NIHR Leeds In Vitro Diagnostics team to lead a remote diagnostics event for innovators

The NIHR Leeds In Vitro Diagnostics team, in partnership with Yorkshire & Humber AHSN is set to host an event for innovators that will explore the most urgent remote diagnostics requirements in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The teams will present an overview of the support they offer, and expert Health Economists will deliver interactive seminars on mapping the…
Ben Kemp
April 14, 2022
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CEO Update – Issue 941

Diagnostics is right at the top of the NHS and DH’s agenda now – we hear that the incoming NHS England Chief Executive, Amanda Pritchard has been engaging on diagnostics and innovation prior to her appointment. Of course we need to bear in mind that, to Government and the NHS, diagnostics means imaging, endoscopy and physiological measurements as well as…
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August 10, 2021