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...