We produce a wide range of documents which provide guidance on safety issues concerning medicinces and medical devices.
Latest safety guidance publications
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30 Jan 2012 | One Liners issue 91 - January 2012
The aim of this edition is to highlight common issues that have been encountered and provides guidance on preventing problems in the future.
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20 Dec 2011 | Single-use Medical Devices: Implications and Consequences of Reuse - DB 2006(04) v2.0
A reissue of our guidance for healthcare professionals.
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22 Nov 2011 | One Liners issue 90 - November 2011: Assistive Technologies Special Issue
This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights incidents involving slings and hoists which have resulted in serious injury or even death.
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26 Oct 2011 | One Liners issue 89 - October 2011: Wheelchair use
This edition highlights common issues that have been encountered with wheelchair use and provides guidance on preventing problems in the future.
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10 Oct 2011 | One Liners issue 88 - October 2011
This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights concerns relating to the use of medical devices. This issue covers topics including interference in ECG monitors and metric/imperial equivalents for vascular devices.
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03 Oct 2011 | Annual Report on Devices Adverse Incidents
This annual report provides an overview of medical device-related adverse incident reports received by the MHRA in 2010.
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09 Sep 2011 | One Liners issue 87 - September 2011: Dialysis special editon
This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights concerns relating to the use of medical devices. This issue covers topics including haemodialysis and haemofiltration machines alarms being overridden and dialysis bloodlines which have 'kinks' present during treatment.
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07 Sep 2011 | Drug Safety Update: Volume 5, Issue 2, September 2011
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08 Aug 2011 | Drug Safety Update: Volume 5, Issue 1, August 2011
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02 Aug 2011 | One Liners issue 86 - July 2011
This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights concerns relating to the use of medical devices. This issue covers topics including nebulisers being inappropriately inserted into the breathing systems of patients with endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes and delays in administrating emergency drugs because of incompatibility between prefilled syringes and needlefree connectors.
