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UK Medtechs Look Beyond Brexit To Long-Term Life-Science Strategy

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The UK medtech industry is looking past Brexit to a time when the government's new Life Science Strategy has gone live. It also seeks better access to the NHS for medtech companies developing and launching innovations as the UK makes its own way in the world as a former EU member state.

Brexit is not quite the done deal, even if the impetus towards it seems all but unstoppable. Seen through this lens, the UK medtech industry association, ABHI, sees little merit in analyzing the potential benefits and drawbacks of the UK's decision to leave the EU. Rather, it prefers now to get on with helping to shape the post-Brexit landscape for the UK medtech industry.

The perfect opportunity arose on Jan. 23 after UK Prime Minister Theresa May launched proposals for a modern "Industrial Strategy"...

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