The newly enhanced Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) promises a more concerted effort to ensure health-care innovations reach end users. On paper, it looks good, but the medtech industry in the UK has seen several worthy efforts along similar lines ultimately amount to little. Health Enterprise East’s Dr. Anne Blackwood is reserving judgment.
The improvements to NHS England’s Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC), announced last week, are designed to put the most promising devices, diagnostic tools, digital services and medicines through clinical development and regulatory approval processes faster.
The AAC will act as the umbrella organization for UK health technology innovation. (Also see "UK Plan To Speed...
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UK-based Biocomposites will begin selling in the UK its next-generation osteoinductive bone graft substitute, NanoBone, which came with its acquisition of Artoss GmbH in June 2023. Meanwhile, the company has purchased remaining shares in the manufacturers of SYNICEM and Subiton antibiotic bone cements and preformed antibiotic-loaded spacers.
The firm’s dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system with is expected to be a growth driver for Abbott and already has acquired approximately 30%-40% of market share from Medtronic since its approval by the US FDA in July 2023, according to GlobalData.
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