Outstanding, Britain's medical strength is steady

　　The medical industry in UK has a long history, and its technology and products are always in the leading position in the world. In the 1950s, ultrasound was first used in medicine in Britain; In the 1970s, under the leadership of British physicist Professor John mallard, the world's first whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner was born.

　　Professor John mallard, the first MRI scanner in the world and inventor (image from the Internet)

　　The UK has the world's leading life science and health care industry, and is also one of the world's three major life science centers. As for medical devices, the UK ranks third in Europe and sixth in the world in terms of market size. In the whole chain from R & D and manufacturing, clinical research, market access to product upgrading, there is an industrial chain composed of scholars, governments and hospitals to provide support and services, so that the innovative technologies and products of enterprises can quickly adapt to the commercial market and complete commercialization, and the market demand can quickly reflect to the forefront of scientific research.

　　In recent years, the industry university research integration ecosystem composed of the British government, scholars and hospitals has provided stable support and services for the diversified development of the British medical industry chain, helped to break through many exclusive key technologies and parts technologies of medical devices, and continuously promoted the development of medical devices in the direction of intelligence.