Medical Device, MHRA.

Medical Device

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices defines a ‘medical device’ as:

any instrument, apparatus, appliance, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, including the software necessary for its proper application intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of:

· — diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease,
· — diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of or compensation for an injury or handicap,
· — investigation, replacement or modification of the anatomy or of a physiological process,
· — control of conception, and which does not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means, but which may be assisted in its function by such means

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) regulates medical devices in the UK under European legislation.