A north Wales health board must ensure staff are properly trained after the death of a heart attack patient, a coroner has ordered. The coroner recommended that staff ‘must be as well and appropriately qualified as possible‘.The nurse admitted during the hearing that her training certificate to use the defibrillator ‘ran out’ a month before the patient …
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CME are hosting a number of T34 Syringe Driver training events throughout 2016. Full details and information can be found via the link below The course topics include: Subcutaneous Cannulation Training The subcutaneous route for drug and hydration therapy The history of subcutaneous infusions Prescribing in palliative care Subcutaneous cannula insertion Monitoring and managing cannula …
Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee launched an inquiry into the impact of EU regulation and policy on the UK life sciences. The inquiry will look at how EU legislation and regulation can best facilitate, and avoid impeding, collaboration and innovation in the life sciences with particular reference to the UK life sciences sector. Could all …
A colleague from Northern Devon Healthcare Trust is looking for Job description and person specs to help develop a business case for a medical devices trainer. Until our resources section of the site is up and running is there anyone out there who can help Kathleen.. email info. to ; kathleenwedgeworth@nhs.net Kathleen Wedgeworth Clinical Nurse …
Medical errors will take 200,000+ lives in the U.S. this year. It’s 3 million lives worldwide. Bill Clinton’s keynote speech at the recent 4th World Patient Safety Summit highlighted the issues around patient safety and medical error. ‘Linkedin’ has a ‘Medical Devices Group’ (with 300,000 members) that you can join to see what’s being discussed …
SBK healthcare are running a one-day event on ‘Introduction to Medical Device Training‘ on 2nd February in London and NAMDET have secured a special one off 50% discount for one member who registers first. All other NAMDET members are also entitled to an individual discount of £90 when using the special discount code NAMDET90. Normal price …
CME have issued a field safety notice re: leaking connections on a small percentage of extension lines used on T34 and T60 syringe drivers. Advice on a recall is contained in their safety notice. If you haven’t already received this via your own organisation then a copy is attached. CME Medical UK Ltd – 4 January …
NAMDET are very pleased to announce that with support from the MHRA we have managed to secure the Medical Device Driving Licence (MDDL) as of January 2016. The MDDL learning modules have now been moved from the MHRA website and transferred over to NAMDET. We will be working closely with colleagues to look at each module …
Registration is now open for the MHRA NHS England event for Medical Devices Safety Officers (MDSOs) and Medication Safety Officers (MSOs) being held on 8th February 2016 at ‘etc. venues, St Pauls, London’ . Sign up now to secure your place! The event will explore key themes in the patient safety arena, with a particular focus …
If you haven’t managed to feedback your comments and thoughts on the re-write of the MHRA ‘Infusion Systems 2010’ (updated 2013) then you have just 1 week left to get your comments back to your regional chair, and feed into this work stream. NAMDET were fortunate to be one of the first organisations approached by …