Europe In Brief

MHRA annual report: The U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's July 14 annual 1report notes the agency entered nearly 100% of fatal and serious adverse event incidents involving medical devices into its Adverse Event Tracking System within three days of receiving the adverse event report; all but one of the 8,909 fatal or serious device adverse event reports were available on the database within three days. In addition, MHRA fully achieved its 2008/09 performance goal of publishing medical device alerts within 60 days of a decision to issue such an alert, and within 20 days for "immediate action" device alerts