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UK Gets Behind PIM Database Plan And Tools For Improved NHS Medtech Adoption

National Medtech Database And NICE’s Different Approach To Medtech

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Innovation in life sciences and UK NHS adoption of technology are high on UK’s political agenda in the post-election period. Projects at the MedTech Directorate and NICE, and support from the Office for Life Sciences, are playing into a renewed sense of optimism.

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Two projects are forming the centerpiece of the UK MedTech Directorate’s plans to improve the procurement of medtech and adoption of innovation by NHS England.

Addressing the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) 2024 annual conference, David Lawson, MedTech Directorate head, itemized these as:

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