{"id":16925,"date":"2012-05-08T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=16925"},"modified":"2012-05-08T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T14:55:28","slug":"deborah-cohen-8-may-15h30-bmjcebm-submission-to-select-committee-about-medical-implants-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2012\/05\/08\/deborah-cohen-8-may-15h30-bmjcebm-submission-to-select-committee-about-medical-implants-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Cohen 8 May 15h30: BMJ\/CEBM submission to select committee about medical implants regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/debs.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Cohen\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" align=\"left\" \/> Over the coming weeks,\u00a0the House of Commons science and technology\u00a0committee will take verbal evidence about\u00a0the regulation of medical implants. The <em>BMJ<\/em>\u2014together with the <a title=\"CEBM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cebm.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre of Evidence Based Medicine<\/a>\u00a0at Oxford University\u2014has already submitted a report based on research and investigations done over the past few years.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the committee\u00a0will look at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are current legislation and regulations on safety and efficacy of medical implants fit for purpose?<\/li>\n<li>How effectively does the\u00a0Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency (MHRA)\u00a0implement the directive in the UK?<\/li>\n<li>How could the legislation and regulations be improved?<\/li>\n<li>How could the European Commission ensure that potential changes to the medical devices directive do not hinder the introduction of innovations in medical implants to the market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the CEBM\/<em>BMJ<\/em> submission, follow the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2012\/05\/08\/deborah-cohen-8-may-15h30-bmjcebm-submission-to-select-committee-about-medical-implants-regulation\/medical-implant_-science-and-techonlogy-committee_final-version_for-bmj\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16926\">Medical Implant_ Science and Techonlogy Committee_Final version_for BMJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the coming weeks,\u00a0the House of Commons science and technology\u00a0committee will take verbal evidence about\u00a0the regulation of medical implants. The BMJ\u2014together with the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine\u00a0at Oxford University\u2014has already submitted a report based on research and investigations done over the past few years. &nbsp; &nbsp; Specifically, the committee\u00a0will look at: Are current legislation [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2012\/05\/08\/deborah-cohen-8-may-15h30-bmjcebm-submission-to-select-committee-about-medical-implants-regulation\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}