Rita Didcock has been appointed Managing Director at Arrow Medical Ltd, one of Britain’s leading specialist contract medical device manufacturers.
Rita will manage the company’s facility at Kington, Herefordshire, working with Graham Jarrett as CEO and John Johnson as New Product Development Director.
Rita has worked with Arrow Medical for more than 12 years, and has been Production Director since 2006. She succeeds John Johnson, who will continue to play a role in sales support at board level.
Recently, Rita played a critical role in increasing Arrow Medical’s cleanroom production capacity and paving the way for manufacture of Class III medical devices, including implantable and invasive devices such as catheters. She also led production of a number of ‘life-critical’ theatre, anaesthesia, ventilation and air and fluid management components.
Graham Jarrett commented: “Arrow Medical has faced and overcome a number of major business challenges in the last few years. I am very pleased to congratulate Rita on her promotion, and pay tribute to John for his excellent contribution to the business during 20 years as Managing Director. I look forward to working with both of them as Arrow Medical continues to make headway in a very competitive and demanding contract medical manufacturing world.”
Arrow Medical manufactures a wide range of components used in anaesthesia, orthopaedics, cardiology, inflatable medical products and fluid and air management by medical device companies worldwide.
Rita Didcock