GMDN AGENCY

Registered charity 1154418 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To preserve and protect health and to relieve sickness for the public benefit by developing and maintaining the Global Medical Device Nomenclature, a system of internationally agreed descriptors used to identify medical device products which will meet a global need for identification purposes.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH AND TO RELIEVE SICKNESS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY DEVELOPING AND MAINTAINING THE “GLOBAL MEDICAL DEVICE NOMENCLATURE”, A SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONALLY AGREED DESCRIPTORS USED TO IDENTIFY MEDICAL DEVICE PRODUCTS WHICH WILL MEET A GLOBAL NEED FOR IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £602,778 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds carried forward of £1,185,661. The trustees consider the charity to have adequate resources to continue in operation for at least twelve months, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. The charity operates on a basis where costs are intended to equate to income over the long term.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MGI Midgley Snelling LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Graham Nash — Health Data Strategy Lead (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Wilkinson OBEchair
• Deniz Bruce
• Dennis Donald Black
• Dr MEI WEN CHRISTINA TONG PHD
• Janet Trunzo BS MS
• Jo Goulding
• Melissa Tores
• Tai Chuan Alfred Kwek

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.

• GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL income £171.5m
• MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (UK) income £95.3m
• MEDICINES DEVELOPMENT FOR GLOBAL HEALTH LIMITED income £111k
• ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES income £1.3m
• LEV CHAIM income £192k
• STEMA income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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