Influencing EU policy

The NHS European Office covers EU developments across a wide range of areas which have potential implications for the NHS.

This sections includes detailed information on our work to influence EU developments in a number of areas.

Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, reflects on the new ‘vision’ and 10-year strategy for UK life sciences.

10 September 2021

Understanding the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation, agreed in 2014, which introduced a raft of changes to the existing, controversial regulation.

10 June 2021

The ability to share data is vital for the functioning of the European healthcare sector.

22 June 2021

This briefing has been produced for Assembly Members in preparation for the Welsh Conservative debate on cross-border healthcare.

2 December 2016

The EU Institutions are negotiating revised legislation on Medical Devices and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices.

29 May 2020