The Cross UK Partnership Group,  a forum enabling regular dialogue between the devolved administrations and the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory  Agency (MHRA),held its latest meeting at Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, in July 2018.

SMTL represent Welsh Government on the Group for medical devices, and alongside Welsh Government's medicines experts gave a presentation to the group on medical device testing and procurement in Wales.

After lunch, 10 members of the group including MHRA staff came for a tour of SMTL, where SMTL staff demonstrated some of the testing programmes currently underway, including testing of lymphodema stockings, pH papers for nasogastric tube placement, and gowns and drapes.