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UK Device Regulatory System Off To Good Start Under ‘Supportive’ MHRA

 
• By Ashley Yeo

The UK’s new medical device registration system, one element of the post-Brexit transition being overseen by the MHRA, is going more or less to plan in the early stages of the standstill period.

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1 May, the first deadline under the UK’s post-EU medical device regulatory system, is approaching fast. Manufacturers with active implantables, class III medical devices, class IIb implantable devices and IVD List A products are to register their products with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) by this date.

Failure to do so will mean they are no longer able to lawfully place their devices on the Great Britain...

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