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UK Device Safety To Be Enhanced By Patient Safety Commissioner

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Certain Cumberlege Review recommendations are making their way into draft UK legislation as the government presses ahead in shaping the UK’s post-Brexit devices regulatory system.

Sharaf Maksumov

A new UK role of patient safety commissioner, providing independent oversight and guidance on patient safety elements relating to device and pharmaceutical product use and surveillance, has been proposed for inclusion in the Medicines and Medical Devices (MMD) bill. The bill is currently going through parliament.

This was one of the recommendations to emerge from the July 2020 report on the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices (IMMD) safety review, otherwise known as the Cumberlege Review. Entitled...

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• By Brian Bossetta

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• By Natasha Barrow

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