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How will the new Health Secretary shape the NHS?
After a dramatic twenty-four hours in Westminster saw the Cabinet resignations of Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister was forced into a sudden...
Jeremy Hunt discusses the future of NHS funding
The Health Tech Alliance team got the chance to listen to Jeremy Hunt in conversation with Andrew Neil, where the Health Secretary gave an insight into his plans for the NHS and discussed in frank...
Lord Darzi announced as new Chair of Accelerated Access Collaborative
Lord Ara Darzi has been announced as the new Chair of the Accelerated Access Collaborative, following Sir Andrew Witty’s decision to stop down from the position. Lord Darzi was a Minister at the...
Members get new insight into NICE & HealthTech Connect
At our latest members’ meeting, attendees gained first-hand advice on best practice in NICE submissions and assessments and were given a live demo of the HealthTech Connect system (formerly known as...
Highlights from the Med Tech Innovation Expo 2018 (25th & 26th April 2018)
The Health Tech Alliance team travelled to exhibit at the Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2018, held at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. The Expo provides an opportunity for companies across all areas of the...
Health Tech Alliance Meeting: NICE and MedTechScan
The Health Tech Alliance are delighted to announce that our next meeting will focus on best practice in NICE submissions and feature a live demonstration of the horizon scanning system, MedTechScan....
Guest Blog: Working with Innovators – the NIHR Surgical MedTech Cooperative
The NIHR Surgical MedTech Cooperative (MIC) is funded to develop new concepts, develop proof-of-concept/principle and to devise research protocols for medical technologies for surgery by working in...
Health Tech Alliance and AHSNs explore how to better collaborate with one another
Health Tech Alliance members met with representatives of Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) to hear more about the work they do and to discuss ways in which the MedTech industry and AHSNs can...
Health Committee calls for close regulatory alignment post-Brexit
The Health and Social Care Select Committee has today published its report following the conclusion of its inquiry into the impact of Brexit on medicines, medical devices and substances of human...
NHS Clinical Lead Optimistic About the Future of Innovation
Professor Tony Young, a consultant surgeon and National Clinical Lead for Innovation at NHS England appeared before the Lords Science and Technology Committee this week to discuss the barriers for...
Life sciences order of the day in Parliament
Lord O’Shaughnessy, the Minister responsible for the uptake of medical technologies, appeared before two parliamentary committees yesterday and acknowledged the issues that innovators continue to...
Health Tech Alliance Urges Government to Provide Clarity Over Brexit
The Health Tech Alliance has formally submitted a response to the Health Select Committee’s ongoing inquiry into the impact of Brexit on medicines, medical devices and substances of human origin....