Independent report

Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report

Findings and recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 8 July 2020

Documents

First do no harm: the report of the IMMDS review

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5272-6567-7

https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20200805110914/https://www.immdsreview.org.uk/Report.html

Details

The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review was announced in February 2018. It was asked to focus on how the health system responds when patients and their families raise concerns about the safety of treatments.

Baroness Cumberlege was asked to chair the review and to look at the cases of:

• vaginal mesh
• sodium valproate
• hormone pregnancy tests (HPTs), in this case Primodos

The Review published its report on 8 July 2020 and made 9 recommendations.

The Review closed on 31 July 2020. You can contact the Department of Health and Social Care about the Review’s work and the matters that were investigated.

Published 8 July 2020