MTG successes

Awareness-raising

• The MTG helped to raise awareness of the under-adoption of medical technology by attending the 2008 Party Conferences.  We also offered MPs the chance to check they had healthy hearts
• The group takes patients’ views to a wider group of MPs and Peers at our annual Parliamentary Showcase
• The MTG appears regularly in the media to help policy makers and the public learn about the benefits of medical technology

Shaping the policy agenda

• In 2008 the MTG worked with parliamentarians to table an amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill.  This encouraged the Care Quality Commission to take into account medical technology’s ability to generate cost savings across Government
• MTG’s regular meetings with NICE helped to ensure that insulin pumps were the very first technology to be the subject of a Commissioning Guide.  This will support the NHS in providing more patients with Diabetes with this life-changing technology
• MTG submissions to NICE help to convey patients’ views to this key public body, while our briefings to Parliamentarians on current legislation like the Health Bill explain to MPs and Peers the views of our members