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he has worked on devices ranging from nebulisers, monitors, and infusion devices, to anaesthetic machines, ventilators and lasers. He has delivered training to over 10,000 staff, designed and developed a range of training tools and teaching aids, software, training booklets, videos and quick reference guides. In 2010 he co-developed and launched the ‘ivDrip rate’ app which has sold all over the world. Paul has a diploma in leadership and management, plus a first-class honours degree in education and training. He has written and published many articles, and presented his research work on infusion devices and IV therapy at national and international conferences. Paul has investigated clinical incidents, device design issues and worked as an expert witness for the MHRA. In 2017 he was seconded to NHS Improvement as the patient safety lead for medical devices and investigated several high-profile coroners’ cases including; accidental alcohol hand gel ingestion, oxygen cylinder safety, and helped devise the national patient safety alert around neuraxial connectors. After his secondment to NHSI he was invited to join the NHS Medical Device Safety Officer (MDSO) editorial group that helps plan training events and monthly webex safety updates. In addition, he was also invited to join the National Patient Safety Response Advisory Panel (NatRAP) that helps contribute to the development of NHS patient safety alerts. Paul heads up the medical device training
department in Swansea Bay University Health Board and sits on a number of high- profile groups and committees including; ISO 80369 small bore connectors, safer sharps, medical device and risk committees and medical gas safety group. He leads the team that manages and delivers the IV therapy training programme and in 2018 this culminated with the launch of an IV Therapy Training Workbook for registered healthcare professionals Paul is a member of the RCT (Register of
Clinical Technologists) and a Registered Scientist (RSci) and sits on a number of special interest groups for Clinical Engineering and is a CPD auditor for his profession. He is an ambassador for the Science Council in the UK. His published work is also focused on usability of medical
devices, post-market surveillance, on-board error logs and drug safety software. More recently, he helped develop a bespoke cannula insertion pack that has now been adopted across the whole of Wales. Paul’s latest research project is looking at SMART infusion pumps, and he is a member of a national project looking to establish drug safety software across the NHS to help identify and reduce medication errors when using programmable infusion pumps. Paul is a founder member and Chairman of NAMDET (National Association of Medical Device Educators and Trainers) and has helped grow the association to over 950 members, with its own website and national conference, as well as regional groups established across the UK.
10:50 Refreshment break and exhibition
11:20 Use and usability in the development of medical devices
Dr Tom Clutton-Brock, director, ERDF Medical Devices Testing and Evaluation Centre Dr Tom Clutton-Brock qualified in medicine from Bristol University (UK) in 1980. He went on to gain an FRCP, FRCA and
FFICM. Tom has been a senior lecturer and then reader in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Birmingham (UK) since 1990.
He has maintained a career long research interest in medical technology with particular interests in patient safety, monitoring systems and point-of-care testing. Tom was a (part time) senior medical officer (Devices Clinical) at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for many years. As well as having a clinical commitment at University Hospitals Birmingham, Tom is associate medical director at UHB, chair of NICE Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee and a past member of Council at the Royal College of Anaesthetists where he chaired the Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group. Since 2013, Tom has been the clinical director of the NIHR Trauma Management Health Technology Cooperative and from
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October 2014 the Interim and then deputy director of the Institute of Translational Medicine in Birmingham. In 2016 he became director of the ERDF Medical Devices Testing and Evaluation Centre and was named as one of the “100 most influential drivers of the health technology revolution, globally.”
12:00 Overview of experiences and the role within the MHRA
Rebecca Flint,
devices patient safety manager, MHRA
12:40 Lunch, visit exhibition and networking opportunity
13:50 Decontamination - Where are we now?
Professor David Perrett, Professor Emeritus of
Bioanalytical Science, Bart’s & London School of Medicine 20 years ago in the light of vCJD, DH assembled a working party to investigate
and research decontamination of reuseable surgical instruments in hospitals and general dentistry. Early surveys of practice and standards in SSDs were very disappointing. In the light of changes to guidelines these slowly improved. Research by members of the group showed how many of the problems arose and how to improve outcomes further. The HTMs were rewritten as the CfPP guidelines. New technologies to improve the detection of proteins on instruments, and to reduce the levels of residual proteins are now available and described in a new version of the HTM-0101. Professor Perrett read Chemistry at Exeter University and obtained a PhD from the University of Surrey. He recently retired as Professor of Bioanalytical Science in Barts & The London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, where he ran an intercalated science degree for medical
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