Seven courses announced on medtech programme of learning

Translate MedTech has announced seven courses on its 2020 medtech innovation programme of learning.

The programme includes a new Business Case Planning and Pitching course which aims to help people create a business plan and successfully pitch a commercial medtech opportunity to investors.

The Translate MedTech Training and Development Programme is open and free to attend for PhD students, researchers, academics and business development staff in any one of the Translate partner universities: (Bradford, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leeds Beckett, Sheffield Hallam and York). Places for industry and clinical representatives are available at a cost of £300 per person.

The full course overview includes:

NHS Strategy and Adoption/Market Assessment: This course looks at how to start innovating in the NHS context, and provides tools to assess research for potential in a healthcare setting. Using real case studies, the course explore how innovation works in the NHS, the opportunities and potential pitfalls to avoid.

Intellectual Property for Medical Technologies: This course provides information to protect your technology, understand the differences between types of intellectual property, rights in property and ownership, and how to exploit them.

Introduction to Data Privacy for MedTech Researchers: An introduction in how data protection and privacy should be used in the research and innovation process, how to ensure any personal data used from design to deployment is sufficiently protected, as well as ethical considerations.

Business Case Planning and Pitching: Providing insights and tools required to communicate a compelling commercial opportunity in a business plan and pitch.

Regulatory Affairs for Medical Devices: An introduction to the regulatory requirements for placing medical devices on the market. It will help participants to understand the regulatory pathway to CE marking a device. As well as guiding delegates through the Medical Device Directive, this course will provide information about other relevant guidance, standards and the new Medical Device Regulations.

Patient and Public Involvement: This training course aims to raise awareness about the benefits of involvement, help researchers think about how and when to involve public, patients and carers, and offers researchers a chance to develop a plan for involvement through activities and discussion.

The Role of Health Economics in Innovation: This training course aims to raise awareness of the role of health economics in the development of new technologies, and to help researchers understand how health economics can be used at all stages of the innovation pathway.