Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 114348

Medical Equipment: Registration

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal DemocratHarpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the MHRA is taking to address circumstances in which a previously used GMDN Level 2 code has been obsoleted or materially amended at the point of mandatory device registration renewal.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) Codes and Categories are managed by the GMDN Agency. The GMDN Agency may obsolete GMDN Codes within a hierarchy of GMDN Categories. If a GMDN Code is obsoleted, the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agen...

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