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...

BIVDA Welcomes Publication of Medtech Funding Mandate  BIVDA, the UK trade association for in vitro diagnostics companies, has welcomed the publication of the Medtech Funding Mandate. In the NHS Long Term Plan, NHS England and NHS Improvement outlined how research and innovation would drive better outcomes and experience for patients. An important element of this was the commitment to introduce a MedTech Funding Mandate to accelerate the uptake of selected National Institute for Health and ...

Newly inaugurated US President Joe Biden is pushing forward with a revitalised and stronger coronavirus testing strategy for the United States as he begins his presidential programme plans. The major cornerstones of his diagnostic approach are a $50 billion plan in investment and more federal oversight of testing activities. A newly created Pandemic Testing Board will channel its efforts through a ‘’clear, unified testing approach”. Laboratories have ramped up production to mor...

Further public and private sector organisations have signed up for rapid coronavirus testing of employees in their workplaces as Government seeks to expand the availability of lateral flow devices in picking up asymptomatic cases of the virus. Companies and organisations which are already involved in rapid testing include Royal Mail, Tate & Lyle Sugars, Primula, Moy Park, Octopus Energy, Apetito, and DVLA. This uptake is due to the fact that around one in three people can carry the virus wit...

25/01/2021   Simple Imaging With Results You Can Trust Now available from Alpha Laboratories, the new gelLITE gel documentation system is a compact and convenient system for documentation of agarose gels and stained protein gels.   A 302nm UV transilluminator enables imaging of large format agarose gels or stained protein gels up to 20 x 20 cm, and can slide out from the main body of the system allowing gel extraction of DNA ...

Cardiff, UK – 21st January 2021 – EKF Diagnostics, the global in vitro diagnostics company, announces that it has expanded into new larger manufacturing facilities at Llandough Trading Estate, Cardiff, to increase production of PrimeStore® MTM viral transport media, a key component for the COVID-19 testing regime. The new facility is over 600 sq. metres, representing a 100% increase in manufacturing area. This enables EKF to fill 36,000 PrimeStore MTM tubes daily and meet gr...