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Brexit: Will UK Now Stockpile Devices? And Is It Certain The Country Will Continue With MDR?

 
• By Amanda Maxwell

UK starts to discuss emergency measures around devices as no-deal Brexit concerns mount. But it is still looking like the UK will continue to implement the Medical Device Regulation, in the short-term at least. Will it be a different matter for the IVD Regulation?

Brexit clock (Norrie3699/Shutterstock.com)

News in the UK that the government is planning emergency measures around the supply of medical devices and medicines in preparation for the potential of a no-deal Brexit is a measure of just how much the UK government may be prepared to risk to exit Europe on its own terms.

Any such outcome will have wide repercussions for medical device trade in the short and medium-term and for patient care...

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