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Challenges in medical equipment design and development

It can be surmised that the availability of many elements of modern technology now opens up new areas for medical device development. At the same time regulatory requirements in the form of safety standards and compliance with the Medical Devices Directive can tend to restrict translation of new concepts into new products.

The meeting seeks to identify general aspects of opportunities for innovation involving medical devices and the existing mechanisms that are in place to encourage and foster such developments – within the NHS and elsewhere. In particular, it is hoped to identify how aspects of modern industrial issues relating to the associated regulatory and device safety frameworks and how these can be successfully navigated.

Provisional Programme available above. To register for this meeting, please complete the Registration form and submit it with your payment to the IPEM office by email, post or fax before the booking deadline to secure a place.


Provisional Programme

09:00 – 09:55    Coffee and registration

09:55 – 10:00    Introduction
                        Douglas Clarkson, Clinical Physics, University Hospital, Coventry

10:00 – 10:30    Towards effective innovation
                        Professor Stephen Roper, Warwick Business School

10:30 – 11:00    NHS Innovation Hubs: Support for Innovation
                        David Glaeves, Chief Executive, MidTech Innovation Hub, West Midlands

11:00 – 11:30    The essentials of good design
                        Speaker TBC, Coventry University

11:30 – 11:55    Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
                        Mike Pelling, Business Development Manager, Coventry University

11:55 – 12:20    Managing innovation within a large acute NHS trust
                        Dr. Elizabeth Dymond, North Bristol NHS Trust

12:20 – 12:30    Discussion

12:30 – 13:30    Lunch

13:30 – 14:00    Tour of Coventry University Enterprises’Design Hub

14:00 – 14:30    Signposts to CE marking of Medical Devices
                        James Love, Inoventions International Ltd

14:30 – 15:00    Quality Systems for medical device development
                        Dr. Steven Crook, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Odstock Medical Ltd.,
                        Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

15:00 – 15:20    Coffee

15:20 – 15:45    The role of 3D printing and rapid prototyping in device development
                        Mark Tyrtania, Laser Lines Ltd.

15:45 – 16:10    Non-invasive bladder function measurement: idea to market – the rough
                        and the smooth
                        Clive Griffiths, Regional Medical Physics Department, Freeman Hospital,
                        Newcastle-upon-Tyne

16:10 – 16:30    Discussion

16:30                Close of Meeting


To register please visit www.ipem.ac.uk

Event Date: Thu, 04th December 2008

Location: Coventry TechnoCentre

Duration: 9.00am - 4.30pm