Please find below information you will find helpful in carrying out your role.
Adverse incidents with medical devices - report to us
A leaflet aimed at healthcare professionals to encourage the reporting of adverse incidents involving medical devices. You may wish to circulate it within your organisation.
Annual Report on Devices Adverse Incidents
This annual report provides our regular overview of medical device related adverse incidents reported to the MHRA during the preceding calendar year. It records recent developments in incident reporting and highlights the more significant actions that we have taken during the year.
Future publications
From 2012, our two annual publications, 'Reporting adverse incidents and disseminating medical device alerts' and the yearly adverse incidents report, will be produced as a single document to be published in March.
Reporting Adverse Incidents and Disseminating Medical Device Alerts
This best practice guidance provides information on the adverse incident reporting system, dissemination of Medical Device Alerts and also the role of the liaison officer.
Medical Device Alert: All medical devices
We would like to remind users to be aware of the risk associated with, and where possible avoid, off-label use of medical devices, the modification of medical devices and the use of products other than those CE-marked medical devices in clinical settings.
Managing Medical Devices
This document is intended primarily for people in hospital and community based organisations (including social services) that are responsible for the management of medical devices, to help them set up systems that minimise risks associated with the use of those medical devices.
The purpose of this document is to outline a systematic approach to the purchasing, deployment, maintenance, repair and disposal of medical devices.
Promote the reporting of adverse incidents
in your organisation.
We have a poster that you can download and print and that you can distribute within your organisation.
