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Provides advice on the key points to take into account on design.
How to use a quasi-experimental study to evaluate your digital health product.
How to use an interrupted time series to evaluate your digital health product.
How to ensure the products you make or import comply with the law and are safe for consumers to use.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Guidance on creating design codes that promote the creation of successful places as set out in the National Model Design Code.
Check the tariff classification for low shoes.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Design your service using GOV.UK styles, components and patterns.
The Designs Act 1949 allows us to give directions in some areas, so that we can react quickly to change.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
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