UK parliamentary committee calls for mandatory bar-coding of NHS devices by 2014
This article was originally published in RAJ Devices
Executive Summary
Medical device suppliers to the National Health Service could be forced to introduce product bar-coding by April 2014, if recommendations to the UK Department of Health on how best to achieve its ambitious procurement savings target are adopted. This bar-coding system would increase transparency on pricing, encourage more price comparisons and help save costs, it is believed.