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NAMDET has expanded to Facebook.
To access just go to Facebook and type in NAMDET, there are many photographs uploaded already.

This is an open group

70% trained or more…

A new topic has been issued in the ‘Forums’ section (under Medical Device Training) . Please feel free to join in and discuss this topic. You can subscribe to this topic thread and choose to receive email alerts when new conversations and/or comments are added. If you are unable to access the ‘forums’ or this …

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Conference 2016

This year’s annual conference has been booked for November 3rd and will take place in Birmingham so please reserve that date in your diary. Please check the conference 2016 pages for all details. This years theme will be focussed on providing a ‘quality training service’ and what this means to our members Many thanks…. Conference …

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Chairman’s Report 2015

Here’s a copy of the NAMDET Chairman’s report for 2015. The report outlines some of the challenges for 2016 and looks forward to setting up new work-streams and projects around MDDL, conference planning, website development and DERS. chairmans report 2015 Team @ namdet

Training ordered after heart attack death ‘mistake’

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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EU Regs and their impact

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 …

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job description and person spec

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 …

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World Patient Safety Summit

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 …

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