Looking for signals and joining up reporting: UK MHRA takes a new approach to medical device incidents
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is looking at smarter ways of managing an ever-rising workload in medical device adverse incidents. Elsewhere, it has high hopes for the integrated incident reporting system in England that is to be launched in 2014. Improved EU harmonization is also on the agenda, the agency’s group manager Tony Sant tells Ashley Yeo.
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