NMPA CMDE Annual Report For Year 2022


2023-01-20

The Center For Medical Device Evaluation of NMPA (NMPA CMDE for short) has made a summary of the work in 2022, the report is as follows:

Ⅰ. Registration application

It accepted 20,865 applications for registration of medical devices, including 5,389 filing changes, 2,035 imported Class I filing. A total of 13,066 applications were transferred to the technical review process, the transfer of the finalized project 14,486, 1,300 more than in 2021, an increase of 9.9 percent year-on-year.

II. Emergency Review Status

III. Review time

Application Type Product Category Average review time Average time for expert consultation Average time for applicant supplementary phase Total time
Product Registration Class II 72 0 245 317
Class III 99 1 178 278
Class II + Class III 95 1 187 283
Registration change of permitted matters Class II 45 0 81 126
Class III 69 0 60 129
Class II + Class III 64 0 64 128
Renewal Registration Class II 24 0 13 37
Class III 46 0 28 74
Class II + Class III 39 0 24 62

IV. Collective decision-making

Ⅴ. Deficiency letter, expert panel meeting and audit

  1. Supplementary Information for deficiency letter
    Issued 5,698 deficiency letters
    Received 5,626 items of supplementary dossiers
  2. Expert panel meeting
    Initiated 114 expert panel meetings
    Organized 107 expert panel meetings
  3. QMS audit
    Initiated 2,465 QMS audits
    Received 2,125 auditing results

Ⅵ. Innovation and priority review

Special review of innovative medical devices

  1. Received 343 innovation applications, up 37.8% year-on-year;
  2. Organized and held 309 expert review meetings;
  3. Completed review of 361 items.

Priority approval for medical device audits

  1. Received 31 priority approval requests, down 24.4% year-on-year;
  2. Organized 13 expert review meetings;
  3. Completed the review of 34 items.

Ⅶ. Manufacturer consulting

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