Drug and therapeutics bulletin
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Excluding medicines, most other healthcare products are medical devices. It is estimated that around 38 million people in the UK "have contact with" a medical device every day, and there are more than 80,000 different devices on the UK market. ⋯ All but the very lowest risk devices must conform to specific European Directives. Here we look at the procedures now involved in the regulation of medical devices in the UK.