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Medical Devices User Supplier Club
Downloadable Files for members of this USC
AGENDA for the April 2005 Meeting (Note: Minutes & Presentations available to Members on request)
AGENDA for the September 2004 Meeting
AGENDA for the April 2004 Meeting
Healthy Aims Dissemination Day - 2nd Dec 2004: Information and Registration
The NEXUS Medical Devices USC aims to bring together
organisations involved in research, design, development, manufacture of Medical
Devices with end users. The focus from the research and development will be on
the use of micro and nano-technology in these applications. The focus at the
user end will be to ensure the very latest technology is utilised to produce
state of the art products for the medical sector.
The aim is to get the members from a large range of medical application sectors
in order that the USC truly represents the medical sector. It is essential that
the end users, who are defined as the clinicians, surgeons and other health
organisations are represented in the network and help lead the new research and
development activities.
The medical sector has in the past suffered from a discontinuing between the
healthy service organisations and the research community. As such medical
advancements have generally been made by the medical research groups, rather
than exploiting the expertise available in the research communities.
The Medical Devices USC aims to address these fundamental issues by forming
partnerships between research groups, designers, manufacturers and end users.
The first success have already been achieved with a new 26M Euro, 4 year EC
funded project to develop a range on Medical Implants, ‘Healthy Aims’.
The USC now wants to build upon this success by strengthening the membership
within the USC, and generating new projects in the medical sector.
The simple approach regarding the development of new projects is simply – listen
to the customer and work out how their needs can be answered.
Developing new medical application using this approach has already resulted in
the first Technology Roadmap for medical devices to be produced by this USC.
This will be updated every 2 years using input from members.
New ideas are often initiated from network meetings which run around every 4
months. These focus around a medical condition and a surgeon or clinician
presents their requirements. To date talks have been on:
New themes will be chosen, and the meetings will take place in
the location where the surgeon is present.
The benefits to members of the Medical Devices USC are:
The annual cost per membership is:
200 Euro Organisations up to 100
300 Euro Organisations over 100
Free to Clinicians (but no free copy of the Medical Devices Technology Roadmap
chapter)
To join use the on-line application form
Further Details:
To find out more, please contact:
Dr Diana Hodgins, MBE
Managing Director,
European Technology for Business Ltd,
Codicote Innovation Centre,
St. Albans Road,
Codicote,
Herts.
SG4 8WH
Tel: 00 44 (0)1438 822836 Direct Dial
00 44 (0)1438 822822 Switchboard
Fax: 00 44 (0)1438 822811
Email: diana.hodgins@etb.co.uk
Meeting Minutes
A list of available minutes can be viewed here