The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) plan to have furnished international recognition for medical devices used in Great Britain.
MHRA agreed that the UK’s transition from EU member state to a country with a standalone sovereign medical device regulatory system has made it clear the significance of working in cooperation with other regulators nationwide and worldwide. The UK is at a crucial moment in its evolution as it pursues faster, risk-proportionate and more predictable regulatory pathways for the UK.
Hence, the agency will institute numerous new priority regulatory pathways for new medical products for diagnostics and genomics, data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and software as a medical device, vaccines and immunotherapies and biotherapeutics, cell and gene therapies.
Generally, the intention is that by 31 March 2025, Great Britain will have approved new recognition pathways for the UK device authorisation that will enhance existing national UK routes to market.
Source: Medtech Insight (an Informa product)