The Path to Sustainable Practices in Medical Device Design and Combination Product Manufacturing
This podcast explores how the medical device and pharmaceutical industries must consider sustainable design and manufacturing principles in keeping with improving health and quality of life. Additionally, Cormac provides insights into the global standards and practices, highlighting the collaborative efforts required for successful sustainability initiatives
Kestrel is delighted to be re-joining the microneedle drug delivery system development team at UCD for Phase 2 of the project to identify specific clinical applications and developing routes to market with commercial partners to bring this exciting and much-needed technology to patients.
KestrelTec was delighted to co-present and moderate at this year's PDA workshop on Patient-Centric Design in Medical Devices.
There was a great line up of speakers who gave us all a lot to take home from this hugely successful event!
Welcome to the Kestrel Consultancy Group Ltd
With a combined 70 years industry experience, the Kestrel Consultancy Group provides expertise and delivers real-world results in Sustainable Design, Medical Communications, Business Development, Product Development, Project Management and Innovation to the medical, smart energy, consumer, and light industrial sectors.
Our Values
- Honesty: We will always tell you the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable
- Integrity: We pride ourselves on operating honourably and enjoy working with organisations that share this approach
- Flexibility: In life as in business, circumstances and plans change – we’ll work with you to manage change to meet your objectives
- Humility: We’re never too proud to admit when we’re wrong or when we don’t know.
- Passion: We care deeply about what we do and the difference it makes to people’s lives. This is our brand, our identity and our legacy.
- Humanity: We invest personally in our work and in our clients, and include previous clients among our close friends. We enjoy our work and enjoy our play. We take our work seriously, but try not to take ourselves too seriously!
Events and Workshops
Throughout the year we attend and participate in leading industry events and workshops in a variety of capacities. This is where you’ll find us next:
Most recent
January 2024
Kestrel were delighted to be invited to join the Institute of Engineering and Technology Product Design Guidance Workshop on sustainable product design. The online event discussed how to prepare British manufacturers for the growing need to plan for how to manage what happens to their products once they are no longer needed.
February 2024
Kestrel in partnership with IPI Academy and Management Forum delivered a day’s workshop on Sustainable Design in Medical Devices to a major global pharma company. The interactive session covered justifications and barriers to consider when developing your long-term strategy for reducing your environmental impact without damaging your business. The session also addressed practical approaches to sustainable product design and used product recovery.
March 2024
- Kestrel were delighted to be asked to present at the BAREMA spring meeting at the impressive MCT Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre in Coventry. The talk including Q&A session covered sustainable design and manufacture in medical equipment and was also attended by the UK regulator The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRI) and the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI).
- Kestrel is delighted to have been invited to join the American Society of Testing and Materials ASTM E60.42 working group on US-based standards for sustainable design and manufacture. Having a voice in this group will help to ensure international approaches to sustainable design across multiple industry sectors have a common basis and are aligned with the global business environment where most multinationals operate.
- Kestrel’s top banana Cormac O’Prey was put through his paces on the Institution of Engineering and Technology stand at this year’s Cambridge Science Festival. Children and adults were invited to try a range of experiments using generators, capacitor storage banks, plasma globes and electromagnets, and could make their own LED torches. The stand was very well attended with multiple repeat visitors encouraged to ask Cormac and colleagues “How does that work?”. Happily we knew the answers – well, most of them!