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It is now early May and over the last few days a small number of news pieces about the process. NBC has one about how some of the Chinese ventilators could kill patients if deployed in hospitals. More interestingly, both the FT and The Guardian have broader pieces of the
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On Friday I wondered about the status of the Dyson contract, but perhaps I should have waited until today to do so as the contract has now been cancelled. Dyson claims it spent £20M developing the new ventilator but it won't try to recoup the money from the
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It is now a full month after the announcement that Dyson had been handed out a contract for the development of a new ventilator from scratch. In the absence of any recent official update, Dyson itself put out a nice video on April 14th stating that some units had been
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Albert has once more looked into the sorrow state of the ventilator procurement process and coined an excellent name for the whole saga: #ventilatorgate. I think it is a perfect epitaph for the situation. On his most recent entry he looked into the responses of the Government to the FT
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The Financial Times published a piece last Friday taking aim at the process of sourcing more ventilators for the NHS. The author, Peter Foster, also posted a long twitter thread providing a few more details. The Government answered yesterday with a rebuttal posted on the Gov.uk website. The answer
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I have been waiting to reply to Albert's volley on our ongoing discussion to give time for the dust to settle around the ventilator saga. I think it is fair to say we agree on the fact that the Dyson contract (as well as those for BlueSkies et
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One of the benefits of blogging is the opportunity to get feedback quickly from your ideas so that you can reflect upon and refine them. A couple of days ago, Albert was kind enough to address my criticism of the Dyson ventilator contract and that poked me in a good
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As mentioned on Friday’s post, the UK did not take part on the joint procurement set up by the European Commission for COVID-19 medical supplies, including that of ventilators. The Government's official response is that there was a miscommunication between the parties and that no invitation to
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A consortium of 20+ industrial, technology and engineering companies has also secured an order from the UK Government for over 10,000 ventilators. Differently from Dyson, Ventilator Challenge UK is basing its improved design on current models that have already been certified by the regulator, so it is anticipated that