Recent Safety Alerts

The College has been asked to notify its Fellowship about the following Medical Device Alerts (MDAs) issued by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

MDAs were introduced on 1 January 2003, to replace the previous types of safety warnings (Hazard Notice, Safety Notice, Device Alert, Advice Notice, Safety Notices and Pacemaker Technical Notes). MDAs are distributed to the NHS in England via the Department of Health's Central Alerting System (CAS).  They remain valid unless they are updated or withdrawn and are reviewed once they are five years old (and subsequently every year).  You can view all MDAs via the MHRA website here.

Device Bulletin: Managing Medical Devices
The revised Device Bulletin (Managing Medical Devices) is available on the MHRA website. It was published in April 2014.