UK Regulation: In A System Of Regulatory Reliance, PMS Assumes A Central Role

Why GB’s Post Market Surveillance Requirements Will Differ From EU’s

Taylor Wessing partner Alison Dennis explains why post market surveillance is an MHRA priority as Great Britain’s medical device regulatory system takes shape.

Hand drawing a red line between the UK and the rest of the European Union. Concept of Brexit. The UK is thus on course to leave the EU on 29 March 2019

With much UK government business put on hold for hustings ahead of the 4 July general election, the forthcoming post market surveillance statutory instrument (SI) and others promised under the Medical Devices Act 2021 have been subject to slippage.

The draft post-market surveillance (PMS) requirements, set out in summer 2023 on the World Trade Organization website, were originally...

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