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UK Outlook 2018: All To Play For In Technology Adoption With AAR Set For Take Off

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Navigating the UK medtech innovation landscape is a notoriously complicated exercise, so industry is hoping the recently released Accelerated Access Review will have positive outcomes as 2018 unfolds. Andrew Davies, market access director for the Association of British Healthcare Industries,  says a simplified system of market access for medtech would bring benefits across the board.

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[Editor's Note: This is the final part a three-part UK Outlook 2018 series with the ABHI. The NHS procurement shake-up was featured in part one; and Brexit preparations, the EU MDR and global outreach efforts were explored in part two.]

When the UK Accelerated Access Review (AAR) was finally given a response by the UK government in fall 2017, it was a big moment for health-care product innovation adoption, holding...

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