Medical Devices
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The NHS Doesn’t Buy Technology
Here’s a curious thought. Imagine inventing a better parachute. You spend years proving it works. It’s safer, lighter and easier to use. Every independent test says it’s an improvement…but nobody buys it. Most people would conclude there must be something wrong with the parachute. What if there wasn’t? During my conversation with Vee Mapunde, Co-Director of…
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When Regulatory Conversations Quietly Rewrite the Strategy
Most MedTech strategies are not rewritten in board meetings. They are rewritten gradually, often almost invisibly, through conversations with regulators that at the time appear to be clarifications rather than decisions. This is not because regulators intend to shape company direction. It happens because evidence-based environments reveal reality step-by-step, and each clarification alters what the…
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When Progress Quietly Reduces Your Options
Progress feels a little like driving on a motorway. When the road is clear and the car is moving quickly, it is natural to assume you have plenty of options. After all, you are travelling faster and covering more ground than before. But there is a small paradox in motorway driving that anyone who has…
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MHRA Proposes Indefinite Recognition of CE Marked Medical Devices in Great Britain
You did not build your company to spend its best energy navigating paperwork. You built it to move something that matters, a device, an idea, a breakthrough, from concept to clinic and from prototype to patient. The ambition has always been clear: to get life-saving products into the hands of clinicians efficiently, without unnecessary friction…
