Medical Product Design and Development
Background: Product Partners is an award winning medical product design consultancy, developing medical products to improve patient care by solving clinical needs.
Our experienced team of medical device designers and mechanical engineers, combined with supporting skills of electronics hardware, software and comprehensive rapid prototyping facilities, supports client projects throughout the complete process of research, creative concept generation, detail medical device development, prototyping, testing, approvals and manufacture.
With a proven track record of identifying, evaluating and developing innovative medical device designs to benefit and improve patient healthcare, we have licenced the intellectual property of our clients' medical innovations to Product Producing Partners for successful commercialisation.
Development: Product Partners works in strategic collaboration with individuals, companies and the NHS to bring new medical design innovations to market. For successful commercialisation we combine and manage the skills of;
- Research
- Marketing
- Intellectual Property
- Medical Device Design
- Development
- Prototyping
- Test
- Regulations and Certification
- Manufacture
Result: With medical devices in production and new medical device developments soon to be launched, Product Partners collaborations include;
- Novel Supraglottic Airways (Laryngeal Masks)
- Asthma delivery systems
- Bathing independence products
- Medical lighting
- Stairlift independence products
- Pre-operation joint supports
- Arterial connectors
- Syringes
Recently working with the HEE team, Dr. Anne Blackwood (Chief Operating Officer) said; "...we have been extremely pleased with the medical design work completed so far and their professional attitude throughout. I wouldn't hesitate to use them again."
Health Enterprise East (HEE) did use Product Partners again, to design and develop a Rotator Cuff Brace - see left.
The Rotator Cuff Brace is the first shoulder support of its kind. The brace, through its design, applies anterior pressure to the shoulder which enables the correct position of the humeral head to be maintained within the glenohumeral joint. The brace facilitates a balance between stability and mobility, which results in patients with rotator cuff injury experiencing a dramatically increased range of motion and reduced pain.
The brace is constructed of a two shot plastic moulding (soft and hard polymers) and a textile harness support. The brace advantages include; increased range of shoulder movement, relieves pain without pain killing drugs and provides stability whilst speeding up recovery.