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Innovation Adoption: ‘Medtech’s Ongoing Challenge Of The Day’

UK Health Care System Faces Tough Short- And Medium-Term Conditions

 
• By Ashley Yeo

UK ministers are increasingly focusing on the need to improve uptake of new technologies in the National Health Service. Ambitious programs have been launched but implementing them effectively for lasting change in a delivery system under acute stress is a challenge of a different order.

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Much talk in UK health care innovation circles in the fall of 2023 has surrounded IDAP, the new Innovative Devices Access Pathway focusing on unmet needs. Health authorities see the pathway as a vehicle for speeding promising pre-regulatory medtech and healthtech solutions into clinical use in the National Health Service.

IDAP has learnt from its precursor sister program in pharma, ILAP, but the principles are the same. IDAP has been developed jointly by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory...

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