Medtech firm mdgroup opens European medical distribution centre

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Peter Davison

Global medtech and patient health services company mdgroup has opened its latest medical distribution centre in Amsterdam.

One of three hubs worldwide, Bracknell-based mdgroup’s Horreum distribution centre - named after the Latin for 'warehouse' - provides sponsors across Europe with clinical trial supply procurement, storage, logistics, and delivery.

The firm says Horreum integrates seamlessly with mdgroup’s range of specialist clinical services, including mobile health home health services and Seacolehealth healthcare professional recruitment.

Tarquin Scadding-Hunt, mdgroup CEO, said: “Horreum ensures seamless service and guarantees logistical support between patients, home health, sites, equipment suppliers, central laboratories, and couriers.

"It connects the entire logistical network, removing the safety, data quality, and compliance challenges that can exist between providers, and eradicating the huge administrative burden on sponsors.

"For example, when the protocol calls for a patient welcome pack to be printed and delivered before day one, and a blood pressure reading to be taken on day five, mdgroup can deliver on all fronts, from a single brief.

"We work with couriers who are well-versed in the rules and regulations of clinical trials and are dedicated to our mission of crating remarkable experiences for our patients. When there’s a last-minute change of plan, open communication channels within our departments allow us to adapt quickly.”

Since 2020 the firm has opened hubs in Bracknell and North Carolina, USA.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.