Morningside Pharmaceuticals won the Export category at the Insider Media Made in the Midlands Awards 2022, hosted by BBC Sports Presenter and Strictly Come Dancing Star, Mike Bushell. The glittering awards ceremony took place at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, in Birmingham, and attended by scores of innovative and rapidly growing...
350 EU rules to be ditched, creating simpler, more flexible and transparent procurement
New procurement rules which will level the playing field for SMEs and drive economic growth across the UK have moved a step closer to becoming law this week. New Procurement Bill will focus on making more government contracts open to small businesses, replacing 350 EU laws with a simple and...
English and Scottish Firms Create World’s First Fully Dissolvable Wipe For Stoma Patients
Salts Healthcare of Birmingham and Fife’s McCormack Innovation have created the Salts FlushAway Wipe, an adhesive remover wipe, which completely dissolves in water within two minutes and therefore doesn’t create sewer blocks or harm the marine environment. The first of its type in the World. People with a stoma...
Welcoming IVDR
A Historic Day in the EU Life science industry as it welcomes the ‘New’ In-Vitro Diagnostic Regulations. Exactly a year ago, the Medical Device industry welcomed the EU Medical Device Regulation where its predecessor – Medical Device Directive was transformed and reinforced as MDR – Medical Device Regulation. While a...
Home oxygen fire deaths being under-reported in France, Italy and other EU countries by at least four times, new report argues
New data suggest serious home oxygen fire incidents are not being identified by EU Medical Device Vigilance System - inconsistent reporting processes may be putting patients at risk across the continent. LONDON (26 May 2022) - Patient safety across Europe may be compromised due to decisions over fire safety...
West Midlands Mayor Officially Opens New Multi-Million Pound Healthcare Research And Education Venues
West Midlands Mayor Andy Street has officially opened two new research and education facilities in Birmingham. Historic, family-owned Birmingham company Salts Healthcare has invested over £2M in the Salts Academy – a new education venue for health care professionals, and the Central Skin Sciences Institute, an independent skin research facility,...
BEAMS solves horrors of missed hospital bedside alarms
Hospitals and other in-patient facilities using medical device alarms to alert medical staff to serious changes in a patient's condition, are increasingly finding nursing and other medical staff are failing to respond to critical equipment alarms, leading to patient's failing to get the prescribed amount of medication, deterioration of the...
CONGRATULATIONS – Max Bardwell from MTIF wins Medilink Midlands Innovation Day Competition
Steve Thomason from competition sponsors Agora Marketing Communications, presented the £100 Amazon Vouchers to Max for successfully visiting each of the 32 exhibitors at the recent Medilink Midlands Innovation Day in Coventry. “The exhibitor competition on the day was a great way of encouraging delegates to speak to everyone...
What Are the EU IVDR Language Requirements and Which Languages Does Each EU Member State Accept?
On 26th May 2022, the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR) (EU) 2017/746 will become applicable across all 27 EU Member States, marking the start of a five-year progressive roll-out for in vitro diagnostic medical devices on the EU market. Among its various changes to the EU regulatory framework are the...
Reach Separations marks 10th birthday milestone with further expansion into Europe
Nottingham-based contract research organisation (CRO) Reach Separations has reported a significant increase in turnover in the wake of sustained demand across Europe for its chromatographic purification services. Reach Separations, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, specialises in chromatography for the analysis and purification of small molecules. When Reach Separations...