{"id":59417,"date":"2015-07-20T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=90dbad181d14c9585f8c02b7706be55c"},"modified":"2015-07-20T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:33:00","slug":"news-story-re-manufacture-of-single-use-devices-survey-on-draft-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59417","title":{"rendered":"News story: Re-manufacture of single use devices: comments on draft guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A number of manufacturers who have a CE mark for a re-manufactured single-use device (SUD) want to put them on the market in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>These companies have been re-manufacturing SUDs for a number of years and such devices are widely used in some countries. Over the last 2 years, MHRA has carried out a detailed review of re-manufacturers, assessing their technical, regulatory and clinical processes.<\/p>\n<p>Following the review, MHRA has developed a draft guidance document on re-manufacturing SUDs and expectations around their use for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>healthcare professionals<\/li>\n<li>manufacturers <\/li>\n<li>any provider of medical devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The draft document is now available for review and MHRA would like your comments, which will be taken into account when finalising the guidance.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1129788\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/447046\/Single-use_medical_devices_-_UK_guidance_on_re-manufacturing_-_draft.pdf\">Single-use medical devices: UK guidance on re-manufacturing &#8211; draft<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">148KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">10 pages<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can send your comments to <a href=\"mailto:dts@mhra.gsi.gov.uk\">dts@mhra.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>. Your views are extremely valuable to us. <\/p>\n<p>We anticipate that the final guidance will be produced by the end of 2015. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MHRA is seeking your views on draft guidance on the re-manufacture of single use devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59465,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417\/revisions\/59465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}