Latest UK Political Shenanigans: What Medtech Needs To Know

Theresa May finally made a Brexit plan, but its effects have been explosive. One consequence: the UK has a new health secretary. What do the latest cabinet changes mean for health products, and why is certainty still so far away?

The Rt Hon Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Digital, talking at FinTech Night on 21 September 2017 at the British Embassy Tokyo. (c) British Embassy Tokyo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/uk-in-japan/26329373639) — Matt Hancock , pictured at a 2017 meeting in Tokyo, is the UK's new health secretary. He has previously led digital technology efforts in the UK. • Source: British Embassy Tokyo

Against an unstable and rapidly changing political backdrop fueled by Brexit, there has been an unexpected change in the UK government's health-sector leadership. Jeremy Hunt, who has served as health secretary since 2012, has been appointed the foreign secretary in Prime Minister Theresa May's new cabinet.

This is not a good time for the UK life sciences community to be losing the man in charge, just...