The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has set March 3rd at the date for this year’s Budget. Following on from our successful Spending Review submission in November, which committed money to diagnostics and life sciences research, BIVDA will be sending in our views, and the views of our members, to make the Treasury awareness of needs to be done to build a strong and sustainable IVD sector in the months to come.We are very interested in hearing your thoughts on what policies you would like to see fr...

NHS Providers have released a statement addressing findings on the protective abilities of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and have warned that the NHS is still facing an extremely challenging period. NHS Providers is the membership organisation for the NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS. Non-peer reviewed data has been released that found a 67% drop in transmissibility of coronavirus due to vaccination. The data also rev...

Message on Northern Ireland Trade from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyThe Secretary of State for Business has asked us to share the below message on Northern Ireland trade with members:--- This year, as we mark the centenary of Northern Ireland, we need no reminder about its integral place within our United Kingdom.Our trade deal with the EU and the additional agreement known as the Northern Ireland Protocol has safeguarded Northern Ireland's place in...

03/02/21   CRYOcheck™ Lupus Anti-Coagulant Testing Solutions for Every Stage of the Testing Pathway For laboratories wishing to perform accurate testing for Lupus Anti-Coagulant (LA), the cryocheck™ frozen controls and reagents provide solutions to fit every stage of the pathway - screen, mix, confirm and quality control.   Available in the UK exclusively from Alpha Laboratories, these products, developed by ...

The cyber security market is set to grow massively over the next decade due to the increase of virtual health technologies being adopted into healthcare services, both public and private. Remote-access medical devices will be leading to a large demand in protective services for virtual health technologies as the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the delivery of healthcare communications. Telehealth applications such as virtual appointments and remote patient monitoring have facilitated medical care ove...

Please see below a message from Medtech Europe:---Dear members, We are pleased to invite you – manufacturers of in vitro diagnostic devices – to participate in a short survey we are launching on behalf of the European Commission: “Market composition of IVDs”. We strongly encourage all member companies of MedTech Europe and of national associations to complete this survey. The aggregated data collected will help inform the European Commission and Member States to asse...

Be our Member of the Month!  BIVDA’s Member of the Month is a chance for our members to be spotlighted on our social media channels so our followers can get to know you better! Attached is a short questionnaire that we use as a basis for our posts. There are questions about your company’s offering, your main IVD product and so on. Your submission will appear on our Twitter and LinkedIn pages. We will be completing Members of the Month posts throughout the year in the order that ...

The Border and Protocol Delivery Group held a webinar this week on Movement of goods through non Short Straits locations.The slides and a document that contains links to key guidance and pages on GOV.UK are attached to this blog. Helplines and contact details for HM Revenue and Customs, the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and UK Border Government departments are included in the slide deck.The recording of today's webinar will be uploaded shortly at h...

Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi has moved to quell concerns over the supply of vaccines from the EU into the UK and to discourage countries for engaging in “vaccine nationalism”. Zahawi stated that he believes Government will not be hindered by supply problems in its goals to vaccinate the first four most vulnerable groups to the virus. In an interview with BBC Breakfast, he said he was “confident” that manufacturers would continue supplies despite a warning of disruption ...

The NHS’s vaccination drive has now been expanded with the opening of 33 new vaccination centres across the UK. These sites will ensure that vaccines are accessible to the vulnerable groups who are currently receiving doses, including the over-80s and health and care workers. London, Blackpool and Sunderland are among the locations that will see newly opened vaccine sites. The 33 new facilities will take the total number of vaccination centres in the UK to fifty. These sites are able to ad...