News & Analysis as of

Medical Devices United Kingdom Manufacturers

Hogan Lovells

Key takeaways – UK MHRA’s response to consultation on ‘Medical Devices Regulations: Routes to market and in vitro diagnostic...

Hogan Lovells on

The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published its responses to the consultation on Medical Device Regulations: Routes to market and in vitro diagnostic devices carried out last year....more

Jones Day

Product Regulation and Metrology Bill Receives Royal Assent

Jones Day on

The Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 reforms the UK's post-Brexit product safety, metrology, and consumer protection frameworks....more

Hogan Lovells

Be vigilant: new post-market surveillance requirements for medical devices in Great Britain take effect

Hogan Lovells on

The Medical Devices (Post-market Surveillance Requirements) (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2024 (PMSR), which were passed into law on 22 October 2024, came into force today (16 June 2025), amending the UK’s Medical...more

Hogan Lovells

Legislation introduced to strengthen UK post-market surveillance requirements for medical devices

Hogan Lovells on

A draft Statutory Instrument was laid before UK Parliament on 22 October 2024 which, once passed, will introduce new post-market surveillance (PMS) requirements for medical devices and in vitro medical devices (IVDs) in the...more

Goodwin

A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q1 2024 and Beyond

Goodwin on

As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

Jones Day

Reversal of Burden of Proof Under Proposal for a New EU Product Liability Directive

Jones Day on

In Short - The Situation: The EU Product Liability Directive 85/374/EEC ("PLD") was adopted nearly 40 years ago and has remained almost unchanged since its inception....more

Goodwin

A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q4 2023 and Beyond

Goodwin on

As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

Hogan Lovells

UK: a new medical devices regime on the horizon?

Hogan Lovells on

The UK Government has recently made available a draft of the Medical Devices (Post-market Surveillance Requirements) (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023 (2023 Regs). Although these are far from being in force yet,...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

UK Medical Device Regulator Proposes a 12 Month Delay for UKCA Requirements and the New Medical Device Regulations

McDermott Will & Schulte on

On Friday 21st October 2022, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) wrote to the medical device industry to explain its intention: - To extend the current standstill period by twelve months from...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Implications for Life Sciences Companies

Latham & Watkins LLP on

The agreement provides guidance across several areas for the life sciences sector, though gaps remain. The widely anticipated EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (the Agreement) came into effect on 1 January 2021 after...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

International News: COVID-19 Global Pandemic - May 2020

The Legal Impact in Europe on Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies - The current crisis mode has triggered legal and commercial issues that affect the pharmaceutical and medical device industry across Europe. ...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

COVID-19 Client Primer | UK Medical Device Product Liability

ANALYSIS - Product Liability Risks for Medical Devices in the UK - In order to fast-track the development, manufacture and supply of key medical equipment and devices vital in the fight against COVID-19, governments,...more

Hogan Lovells

Publication of further guidance on the role of the “UK Responsible Person” in case of no-deal Brexit

Hogan Lovells on

On 18 September 2019, the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published new guidance regarding the role and responsibilities of the “UK Responsible Person”. ...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Digital Health in the United Kingdom: The New Regulatory Environment Under the Medical Device Regulation

The MDR and other recent developments in the health care regulatory landscape pose new opportunities and challenges for medical software companies and investors in digital health in the United Kingdom. Although the regulatory...more

Hogan Lovells

New Brexit Q&A provides several examples in relation to the “placing on the EU market” of products including medical devices

Hogan Lovells on

On 1 February 2019, the European Commission published a new Q&A document to give further guidance on the Notice to stakeholders-withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules in the field of industrial products (“the Notice”)....more

Hogan Lovells

Brexit – what’s next for medical devices?

Hogan Lovells on

On 22 January 2018, the European Commission released a notice to stakeholders concerning the United Kingdom’s (“UK”) possible withdrawal from the European Union (“EU”) and the EU rules in the field of industrial products,...more

Hogan Lovells

The MHRA issues new guidance concerning Own Brand Labelling or "Virtual Manufacturing"

Hogan Lovells on

On 29 March 2017, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) published a new guidance (hereafter “Guidance“) concerning the Own Brand Labelling of medical devices in the United Kingdom. The Guidance,...more

Hogan Lovells

International Product Liability Review - Issue 65

Hogan Lovells on

The International Product Liability Review provides quality updates and comment from around the world on legal developments in the field of product liability and product safety. ...more

18 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide