The findings of the Cumberlege Review into how safety issues for three medical product groups were handled will shape debate on the UK’s new devices legislation, now going through parliament. The MHRA’s devices regulatory activity also comes in for scrutiny.

Medical device companies – including Sientra, Endologix and Invacare – won loans from the US government’s Paycheck Protection Program, intended to protect jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. In total, nearly 1,400 device makers collected as much as $1.6bn, according to a Medtech Insight analysis of PPP data.

A damning UK report makes uncomfortable reading about how thousands of women suffered avoidable harm from the anti-epileptic drug sodium valproate and two other medical interventions and how safety concerns raised were dismissed, overlooked and ignored.