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  • Custom-made medical devices in Great Britain

    How to comply with the regulatory requirements for manufacturing custom-made medical devices.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Culture change in the NHS

    Sets out the progress made in applying the lessons learned from the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Legal requirements for children's medicines

    An overview of the legal requirements for children’s medicines that Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) need to abide by.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Magnetic resonance imaging equipment in clinical use: safety guidelines

    Relevant safety information for users of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment in clinical use.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • NHS Prevent training and competencies framework

    Guidance for healthcare professionals about safeguarding vulnerable individuals from being drawn into terrorism.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • A guide to defective medicinal products

    Reporting, investigating and recalling suspected defective medicinal products to the Defective Medicines Report Centre (DMRC).

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Thirlwall Inquiry: terms of reference

    The Thirlwall Inquiry has been set up to examine events at the Countess of Chester Hospital and their implications following the trial, and subsequent convictions, of former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby of murder and attempted …

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Discharging people at risk of or experiencing homelessness

    Guidance for staff involved in planning to discharge patients at risk of or experiencing homelessness, or who have no recourse to public funds.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Medicines: notes for applicants and holders of a manufacturer licence

    Guidance to help applicants and licence holders get and maintain a manufacturer licence - MHRA guidance note 5.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Hospital Norovirus Outbreak Reporting System: user guidance

    Explains how to report a suspected or confirmed norovirus outbreak using the HNORS website, for infection control staff in NHS hospitals.

    • From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
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  • E-learning modules: medicines

    E-learning modules for healthcare professionals on minimising the risks of using medicines and information on how to access medical device modules.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Medicines: register as a broker

    Apply for and maintain registrations for the brokering of human medicines.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • NHS information governance: legal and professional obligations

    Sets out legal responsibilities for the management of information in NHS organisations.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • High security psychiatric services directions 2019: arrangements for safety and security

    Directions on safety and security to providers of high security psychiatric services.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Medical devices: off-label use

    What is considered off-label use of a medical device and examples of it.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Lampard Inquiry: terms of reference

    The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) will examine deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Medical radiation: patient doses

    Typical effective doses, equivalent periods of natural background radiation and lifetime fatal cancer risks from diagnostic medical exposures.

    • From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
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  • Ultrasound gel: good infection prevention practice

    This is guidance on the safe use of ultrasound gel to reduce risk of transmission of infection during ultrasound and related procedures.

    • From: UK Health Security Agency
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  • EAGA guidance on HIV post-exposure prophylaxis

    Updated guidance on occupational HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) from the UK Chief Medical Officers' Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA).

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Symbols used on medical devices: poster

    Some of the different symbols used on medical devices.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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