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UK Must Break The Cycle Of Pricing Pressure And Face Up To Medtech Value Needs

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The UK Department of Health's new system of medical device procurement for the NHS went live in May. What was the Future Operating Model (FOM) is now simply the "Operating Model." But there are yet to be any tenders under a system that supposedly champions value and total ownership. UK industry wants to believe it, but will it happen? And will Brexit get in the way?

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As if to remind all stakeholders that Brexit will have unintended consequences on how health care is delivered in the UK, at least in the short term, NHS chief executive Simon Stevens has reiterated that the NHS, like industry, is getting contingency measures in place for the post-EU period in the event of a hard Brexit.

Reported by BBC TV on July 1, the NHS planning for a possible no-deal Brexit is not the news the...

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