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 …
Further to the recent review meeting held in London, it was agreed that a communication should be drafted by way of update to go out to all Trusts and industry representatives via the Trade Associations. Attached is the final letter, signed by Chair of the Review, Prof. Sue Hill, which I would be grateful if you …
Do you use KPIs or annual reports for medical device training? One of our newest members (Pat Taw) from Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is looking to establish criteria and bench-marking for KPIs for Medical Device Training and reporting. Can we ask if anyone has annual reports they would like to share ( or …
We’ve been requested by new namdet members for more contact details so please can all regional chairs and secretaries check that you have your meeting details, minutes and agendas, contact names and email addresses on the regional pages of the namdet website. This will allow for better contact and communications going forward. If you need …
A great big thank you goes out to all the team at NAMDET who helped put on a great conference at Manchester again this year. Our feedback has been fantastic overall and we’ve also uploaded the presentations for all members to see again and use in medical device training meetings and courses. Also a big …