A new UK Government report has found that up to £1.6bn of medical equipment is imported to be sterilised in Britain every year, which could leave the country vulnerable to contamination.It found that, in some cases, medical instruments such as CT scans and MRI scanners have been manufactured in the UK for more than 30…
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How to buy medical equipment for the NHS
A medical device company has been fined £2.2m after admitting that it sold medical equipment to the NHS without proper approval.The UK’s Independent Medical Journal (IMJ) reported that The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) had ruled that The Thermo Fisher Scientific Company breached rules by failing to register its sales to the Royal…