Med-Tech Innovation October 21, 2024
Chris Whitehouse

Chris Whitehouse, a political consultant and expert on medical technology policy and regulation at Whitehouse Communications, an advisor to MedTech suppliers, chair of the Urology Trade Association, and governor of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, highlights a new government strategy to ensure that in future MedTech is part of the circular, not linear economy, and that products are re-used or recycled.

Baroness Gillian Merron, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, has published a new Roadmap to deliver the government’s ambition to transition away from all avoidable single-use medical technology (MedTech) products towards a functioning circular system by 2045 that maximises reuse, remanufacture and recycling.

The Roadmap also has the backing of the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, so...

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