Surgical Dressing Manufacturers Association

The SDMA exists to serve companies who manufacture or distribute wound management and associated products within the UK and Ireland. Member companies range in size from small family companies to major multinational organisations – but each company has an equal voice regardless of size. One of the great strengths of the SDMA is the inclusive nature of its membership. Our activities are wide-ranging and usually concentrate on issues that affect the wound care market as a whole. The SDMA acts as a voice for the membership as a whole, wherever that is needed. It can, and does, represent the views of the wound care industry to bodies such as: - NHS purchasing and procurement functions, including NHS BSA, NHS CET /CaPA, Category Towers, National Procurement Scotland, Welsh Shared Services, Northern Ireland Procurement and the London Procurement Programme. - The MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency), NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) and other professional organisations. - The administrators of the Drug Tariff, including a leading role in the Drug Tariff Forum – covering both England /Wales and Scotland versions. - The Department of Health Commercial Directorate and the NHS Supplier Board. - The BSI (British Standards Institute) and CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation), including representation on several UK and European standards committees. - Parliamentary organisationsalong with several other similar bodies. In addition to representing the industry as a whole the SDMA can, when appropriate, approach any of these bodies with questions and issues raised by member companies. Information from all of the above bodies is regularly fed back to all members, both during meetings and in regular mailings by the secretary. The SDMA is available at short-notice should anything significant occur that affects the industry as a whole, and can take an organising role for emergency situations or incidents covered by the Ci
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