Instruments of change in health research

Michael Kenward

The UK's National Health Service may look like a large centralised body, but anyone trying to get the NHS to adopt a new technology, or to let them try out new ideas, soon learns that it sometimes looks more like a bunch of cottage industries, with each region buying as it sees fit, and in response to ever moving targets handed down from Government. The new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is supposed to bring some order to the mess, in line with the recommendations of the Cooksey report.

One sector that is particularly interesting for smaller businesses, because it doesn't have to jump through quite the same hoops required of drugs makers, is that of medical devices, the kit used to monitor patients and that surgeons wield as...

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