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The Government has today announced it will continue to support eleven devices in its Ventilator Challenge, as part of the drive to increase ventilator supply and protect the NHS.

• Updated: 30 April 2020

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

British manufacturers will have helped to produce over 14,000 ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to the success of the government’s drive to boost the NHS’s ventilator capacity.

• Updated: 4 July 2020

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to British suppliers and manufacturers yesterday evening (26 March 2020).

• Updated: 27 March 2020

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

This guidance sets out the clinical requirements based on the consensus of what is ‘minimally acceptable’ performance in the opinion of the anaesthesia and intensive care medicine professionals and medical device regulators.

• Updated: 28 April 2020

An article published in the Financial Times on 24 June makes a number of inaccurate and misleading claims about the Government’s Ventilator Challenge.

• Updated: 25 June 2020

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

A batch of new ventilators from the Government’s Ventilator Challenge has arrived in the UK this week.

• Updated: 8 May 2020

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Restrictions on primary schools will be introduced across London

• Updated: 1 January 2021

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

The first newly-adapted ventilator design from the government’s Ventilator Challenge has received regulatory approval and is ready to be sent to the NHS frontline to support coronavirus patients.

• Updated: 16 April 2020

First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government