The Department of Health and Social Care published the first strategy for medical technology today. The British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA) welcomes this as another step forward to achieving wider use of the essential diagnostic tests and enabling technology which can really support better healthcare for patients and save resource for the NHS.

In this blog, Doris-Ann examines the pandemic’s legacy of normalising diagnostic testing and how we should use this opportunity to be more health aware as a society.

Doris-Ann has provided a simple explainer to help companies better understand the NHS Innovation Service and how best to use it.

The North East Innovation Lab is celebrating a two-year milestone birthday and has expanded its work in accelerating the development of diagnostics for a range of virus and health threats.

Breakthrough SAMBA II point-of-care diagnostic machine on show to the public from this November, as part of inspiring COVID-19 science showcase.

RQM+, the leading MedTech service provider with the world’s largest global team of regulatory and quality experts, today announced the launch of its reimbursement division. RQM+ now provides comprehensive reimbursement services in addition to regulatory, quality, clinical and laboratory services – supporting market access throughout the entire product lifecycle for medical devices and diagnostics.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has today unveiled his new Growth Plan in Parliament – we will provide a full summary, and what it means for the life sciences industry, next week. Among the flagship tax cuts on income tax and the cancellation of corporation tax rises, the Chancellor also pledged to provide up to £500 million to support new innovative funds and attract billions of additional pounds into UK science and technology scale-ups.

In his first major act as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Jacob Rees-Mogg has announced a new scheme which aims to steer British business through a tough winter, owing to the gas crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In this week’s feature, we speak to Amanda Winter, a Diagnostic Evaluation Healthcare Scientist from the North East Innovation Lab, who discusses what a day in her life is like.

Last week, the Prime Minister named Robert Jenrick and Will Quince as Ministers of State in Therese Coffey’s new Health team. It is expected that Mr Jenrick will take the more senior role as the Secretary of State’s deputy.