Medical Device Education and Training for Healthcare Professionals

Our members include NHS staff, clinical educators, technicians, nurses, engineers, lecturers, scientists, MDSO (Medical Device Safety Officers), company representatives, academia partners and regulators.

We are involved in every aspect of medical device training and help design, develop and deliver thousands of teaching sessions every year ranging from; face to face, on line-learning, lectures and seminars.

Our roles vary and can include teaching on basic temperature measuring devices, suction units, infusion devices, oxygen therapy, beds, cardiac monitors through to life saving ventilators and anaesthetic machines.

Our members are also busy helping to plan and lead many local and national projects including;

• The MDSO (Medical Device Safety Officer) network in the UK
• Member of the NHS National Patient Safety Response and Advisory Panel (NatRAP) that help review and develop national patient safety alerts
• The Editorial Board for the MDSO network that help plan and deliver monthly webex and update meetings about medical device safety and training

Our current projects include work on a national library for training competencies, DERS (Dose Error Reduction Systems) for infusion devices and developing a national Medical Gas and Oxygen safety training course.

NAMDET also leads the development of the Medical Devices training modules on the NHS national E Learning for Health (eLfH) training website, that currently has over 1 million subscribers in the UK.