The importance of ‘workshop’ type meetings to determine research priorities in a range of medical engineering topics has been demonstrated by means of a series of such meetings organised by the Science and Engineering Research Council. Four workshop-type meetings have been held in the past 2 years on topics ranging from incontinence to body access, and these have resulted in new, collaborative research programmes and an increase in the general level of interest in the topic. Further meetings of this type are planned in the coming twelve months.
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