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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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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 …
Hi everybody, We currently cover all staff in our Trust except the Medical Staff for medical devices training. We have now been asked to take on the medical staff but where do we begin? I just wondered if anybody else is involved in the Doctors medical devices training and how you have approached this and …
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 …
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 …
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 …