More Than 50% Of EU Clinicians Report Recent Medical Device Shortages

Shortages of medical devices ranging from insulin pumps to robotic surgical systems are impacting clinicians across the EU, leaving many healthcare providers without effective alternative products, a report by the Biomedical Alliance in Europe shows.

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There have been growing fears across the EU medtech community that the implementation of the new EU Medical Device and In Vitro Diagnostics Regulations (MDR/IVDR) will result in many devices becoming unavailable.

However, this is already a reality for 53% of clinicians, medical specialists and laboratory professionals, according to a recent survey. Regulatory pressures, in addition to other factors such as geopolitical...

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