Medical Device Manufacturing Centre

A selection of You Tube broadcast Webinars

Health Technology Assessment of New Medical Technologies and the Benefits of Early Preparation

Join our guest speakers from Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) and University of Leeds, for an overview of HTA components, including health economics, and their role in adoption of new health technologies in the NHS. The webinar also introduces SHTG's new “Early HTA Advice” service for medical device developers.
Please complete the form here to gain access to the full webinar.

Medical Device Regulations

This webinar features practical, up-to-date guidance on pathways to market for medical device SMEs, including post-Brexit opportunities. Led by regulatory expert Edwin Lindsay, MD of Compliance Solutions (Life Sciences) Ltd, this webinar incorporates a case study on the innovative SC+ personal haemodialysis system by Prof Clive Buckberry, Chief Engineer and Technology Officer at Quanta Dialysis Technologies Ltd.
Please complete the form here to gain access to the full webinar.

Environmental Sustainability of Medical Devices: Challenges and Opportunities

Medical waste has hit the headlines during the Covid-19 pandemic, with billions of tonnes of single-use PPE and diagnostic paraphernalia going to incineration or landfill. A heavy user of single-use products, the healthcare industry, has relatively recently awakened to the environmental impact of this. In this webinar, experts discuss the challenges, solutions and opportunities for higher environmental sustainability in manufacturing technologies for single-used medical devices.
Please complete the form here to gain access to the full webinar.

Polymer 3D Printing for Medical Devices

Join our MDMC technical webinar showcasing the 3D printing capabilities available free of charge to Scottish SMEs. In this webinar, our technology specialists discuss details of 3D printing including:

  • Filament and resin based 3D printing and how they can be used for medical device manufacture
  • What to consider when 3D printing
  • Exemplary case studies, from COVID test swabs to wearable devices
  • How to take advantage of the MDMC 3D printing facilities
Please complete the form here to gain access to the full webinar.

Hermeticity of Medical Devices

In this webinar, Dr. Anne Vanhoestenberghe, Deputy Director of MAISI, and Prof. Marc Desmulliez, manager of the MDMC, will present:

  • The fundamentals of hermeticity and the three types of leaks that can occur in medical devices
  • The standards that medical device manufacturers must follow to have hermetic medical devices
  • The methods to test loss of integrity in medical devices
  • The impact of outgassing in hermetically sealed packages and permeation in plastic packages
  • The impact of outgassing in hermetically sealed packages and permeation in plastic packages
Please complete the form here to gain access to the full webinar.

Published on: 04 May 2022
Last Updated On: 04 May 2022