• In this next forum, we take a look at the Medical Device and In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations in Africa and Europe and how this affects the provision of medical technologies in these areas.

    • CSIR Medtech Regulatory support services and programmes  with CSIR Team, led by Jeremy Wallis

    • African Medical Device Regulations - an update with Lizel Dreyer-Fouche, RA Manager: Africa & Middle East, Abbott Molecular

    • Overview of the European MDR and IVDR with Andre ten Napel, Regulatory Consultant, TNMC Medical Devices

  • 2021/2022: Feedback and forecast Join us as we look back at 2021, our activities and achievements, and the SAMED 2022 vision for a sustainable, ethical and transformed medical technology industry. Mandatory Vaccines: To implement or not? Many health sector organisations have implemented mandatory vaccine policies. Find out why, how, the ethical and legal considerations and what medtech companies should consider before implementing policies of their own.

    Members-only event

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  • SAMED has made some amendments to the Medical Device Code of Ethical Marketing and Business Practice. These changes are aimed at strengthening the Code and providing guidance to our members. Updates include changes to definitions, virtual events and the whistle-blowing hotline processes.

    Members-only event

  • SAMED Market Access Forum

    In this forum, we take a look at the importance and use of data within medtech market access particularly in reimbursement and procure.

    Members-only event

  • While South Africa faces its own medical device regulatory changes, we cannot lose sight of the changes happening abroad. This forum will look at the regulatory developments from across Africa as well as key considerations of the Post-Brexit medical device regulatory landscape for those trading with the UK. Non-members welcome.
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  • The National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) has certain oversight functions within the medical technology space. The NRCS has requirements on cables, batteries and plugs on medical devices and equipment and, as highlighted by the pandemic, requirements on masks and disinfectants.

  • The pandemic, new technologies and POPIA; the market landscape has changed and altered the way in which businesses operate. Digital communications and POPIA have altered the medtech market landscape.

    Join us as we unpack digital sales and marketing and how to bridge the gap with Warren Hickenbotham from Blankpage Media and answer your questions on implementing and adhering to the protection of personal information Act with Pat Matseke from Elsabe Klinck and Associates.

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  • Dr Alicia McMaster, Associate Director at PWC Healthcare Consulting will delve into reinventing the future as the pandemic edits the DNA of the health system.

    Join legal experts as we consider the obligations of mandatory vaccine policies framed within the context of the medtech sector.

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