GMDN Agency meet with Clinical Engineers from Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
29 April 2026
GMDN Agency colleagues recently met with Clinical Engineers and Clinical Scientific Computing teams from Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
The meeting in central London provided the chance for the GMDN Term Development Team and the teams from Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, to discuss data interoperability with a focus on medical equipment management and how the GMDN can support medical device data in clinical settings and the real world.
Graham Nash, Health Data Strategy Lead at the GMDN Agency, said: “It was great to meet with the teams who work in Clinical Engineering and Clinical Scientific Computing at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and have the opportunity to talk about real world examples that highlight the importance of identifying medical devices in meaningful and unambiguous ways. There was some very interesting discussion, and lots of good ideas for ways to collaborate in future.”
Dr Emmanuel Akinluyi, from Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We’re extremely privileged to have worked with the GMDN Agency on a number of initiatives, and so I know that they are as forward-thinking and supportive as they are serious about providing a key underpinning.
“This meeting was a great opportunity to showcase how we are embedding GMDN into a number of our transformation initiatives and research and using the nomenclature to enhance operations around health technology management. Also to explore how our data science capabilities in Clinical Scientific Computing and Clinical Engineering.
“This was an energising day, which has re-invigorated our work. We ‘ve also gained a good number of leads and advice on how to progress our research, via the network that the GMDN Agency has. In addition to all this, it was encouraging to connect with a mission-aligned group, and what is clearly a great team. Even in a large Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering Department, specialist work can be isolating – it emboldens us when we remember that we have peers and allies across the system.”