A Global Approach To Medtech Regulation: The Post-EU Way Ahead For UK Industry?

As the UK looks to its future healthtech regulatory model after Brexit, the ABHI’s regulatory director Phil Brown suggests a system whereby the same product data can be used as the basis for entry not only to the EU, but also to global markets.

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It is self-evident that trust arrives on foot and departs on a racehorse. But once earned in the commercial sector, trust goes a long way to ensuring and enhancing the types reputations on which businesses are built. That applies at least as much to the medtech sector as to other businesses, and it could play a significant role in future UK medtech regulation, according to the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI).

The UK medtech sector is at a crossroads in how products will be regulated after the UK parts company with...

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