ISO 13485 – Medical devices – Quality management systems – Requirements for regulatory purposes allows manufacturers to demonstrate their compliance with industry regulation and requirements.
New guidelines have been published by the General Medical Council (GMC) requiring doctors to report patients who continue to drive despite being medically unfit to do so.
A report commissioned by the UK government has concluded that unregulated antibiotics sales are contributing to the risk of a lethal, drug-resistant superbug. The report concerns both unregulated over-the-counter drugs and those purchased on the internet.
The Faculty Development Group (FDG) of the Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN) has published a paper calling for reform. The FDG wants more specialist OH education.
The Minister for Life Sciences and Agritechnology for Britain, George Freeman, has spoken out against over-regulation in the European Union (EU), claiming that an excess of red tape could force the industry into a new "Dark Age".
The National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE) has issued new guidelines recommending that more women should be prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a treatment for severe menopause symptoms.
The healthcare sector in the UK has been criticised as trailing behind healthcare standards in other countries across the globe, AOL reports. Experts have revealed that for the UK to raise standards to be in line with those in the rest of the world, 75,000 more doctors and nurses would be required at a cost of £5 billion more per year.
Regulations came into force early this month in the UK, making it the first country in the world to allow the use of mitochondrial donation techniques during IVF.
