"Meanwhile, the consortium of medical, military and civil engineering companies - which includes Airbus, Meggit, GKN and others - is working to ramp up the production of an existing design."<p>This is such a relief!
“Dyson has had hundreds of engineers working round the clock to design the ventilators from scratch.”<p>It blows my mind. Everybody now, instead of cooperating, tries to design a perfect ventilator.
The government turned down an offer from the EU because Europe which is a bit worrying.<p>There are plenty of medical equipment manufacturers in the UK who've made these exact products before, or very similar products, and who know the rules and regulations well. They've offered to help, but not heard anything back from the government.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1242949236762738692" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1242949236762738692</a><p>These are the kinds of things that we will have to hold the government to account for at some point.
I'm an intensivist and I really hope that ventilator won't be mounted on the bed like they show in the picture. That's a very bad idea, you need that space to access the patient.
Didn't Dyson move all his manufacturing to Singapore at the same time as loudly espousing Brexit?<p>Waiting for the v2 of the ventilator that has a ball attached, and costs an extra £100.
So are ventilators actually complicated and frequently modernized equipment or medical TI83s. I was reading one the largest expenditures of PPEs in China after they resolved the supply issue was adjusting ventilator settings. Seems like a wired or wireless interface would go a long way.
withouth a meaningful time line, this is all noise.<p>its a totally new design, which means its going to have to be re-certified.<p>The UK has had 2 months head start, 1 month if you take italy as a warning, 2 if you treat the "YOLO LETS JUST LET IT BURN THROUGH THE POPULACE."as a starting point.