£50 million given to 90 charities to fund revolutionary new medical research into diseases such as cancer, dementia and motor neurone disease. Over 1,200 early career researchers set to benefit from the funding, sustaining the future of the medical research industry. Funding backs PM’s priorities to support the NHS, provide...
Delivering Accelerated Data Acquisition Services for the Medical Device Start-up Business at No Net Cost
A major unmet need for a medical device start-up is how to acquire industry benchmarking data or relevant performance data to inform their product development without the substantial time and cost associated with conventional trials. For the fledgling start-up the cost of data acquisition is often perceived as a significant,...
Driving Innovation in Midlands Healthcare – a collaboration with the University of Leicester’s Institute for Precision Health.
A Charnwood Campus Cluster NHS and Academia Collaboration Platform event, part of a series of events to support the growth and success of the life science organisations clustered around Charnwood Campus Science, Innovation and Technology Park. World leading clinicians, academics, business leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators and stakeholders gathered at Charnwood Campus...
Medilink Midlands members royally recognised with the King’s Award for Enterprise 2023
We are delighted to announce that two of our member businesses in the East Midlands – Upperton Pharma Solutions and SureScreen Diagnostics - have been crowned winners of the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise. The King’s Awards for Enterprise are designed to recognise and encourage outstanding achievements in the fields...
Empowering Women in Biotech
Over 70 women working in biotech came together for an energising and inspiring event: ‘Empowering Women in Biotech’ which was held in Loughborough, UK on the 18th April 2023. The event set out to help women, wherever they are in the career path, realise their future goals and generate a...
Eresby School Visit
Micronclean SKIEs Values states – "Investing in people is not about being nice to people (although this helps) but rather ensuring that we have people who share the value set of our SKIEs." This statement encompasses the work that has taken place in collaboration with Eresby Special School. Recently, we've...
Bluefrog Design – Apne Scan Ltd
Bluefrog Design has developed Apne-Scan for Apnea Tech Ltd. ApneScan is designed to triage patients with suspected sleep apnoea. A Bluetooth enabled, easy to use, low cost, single use device that screens for sleep apnoea by monitoring the breath pathway. With the potential to increase capacity within busy sleep clinics,...
Eight steps to improving Post Market Surveillance
by Leeanne Baker, Managing Director and Quality & Regulatory Consultant at IMed Consultancy Deadlines for the EU MDR implementation have been delayed once again, specifically to the end of 2027 for high-risk devices and to the end of 2028 for medium and certain lower risk devices. This delay provides an...
Senior promotions for homegrown talent at V Formation
V Formation is thrilled to announce the promotions of two members of our team. Amy Cooper is promoted to Account Manager: Digital Marketing and Lucy Wharton to Account Manager: PR. Homegrown talent, both Amy and Lucy joined V Formation as interns on the Nottingham Internship Scheme after completing English degrees at the University of Nottingham in...
Medical Device Technical File requirements: what you need to know
What is the medical device technical file? What should it contain and how should it be structured? And is it even called the medical device technical file anymore? What is the medical device technical file? The medical device technical file (now known simply as the medical device file) is a...