So MHRA are another useless government Quango or do they need to grow a Backbone and take a leaf out of the FDA book. MHRA have a look at the CAA, all avionics equipment has to be approved first before it can be used on aircraft. What is the point of the MHRA equipment evaluation?
Surely engineers have to be registered to work on medical equipment. Shouldn't Medical manufactures have licence (issued by MHRA) to sell the products? If I have to register to be known as a clinical technologist, manufactures register new equipment before it can be called medical equipment.
Maybe we should do away with CE mark and have a MHRA kite mark instead.
As an engineer it is very difficult to evaluate a new technology. There is no previous history to look back on. The item may work fine in the workshop or nurse product evaluation days when sales rep is showing the product. But two month down the road glitch comes along and cause problems. Bye this time you already paid for the product.
There are helpful website (
www.ebme.co.uk) forum that have helpful information on most products.
A.M
