Lives could be at risk from thousands of new ventilators for the NHS, safety experts warn

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Lives could be at risk from thousands of new ventilators for the NHS, safety experts warn
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Devices ‘being designed and manufactured quickly by firms with little or no healthcare knowledge or manufacturing experience of medical devices’

Update newsletter preferences“Staff will be wearing personal protective equipment and working longer shifts in stressful conditions and Nightingale hospitals could have up to 10 different types of ventilators. Wards will need devices that do not harm patients because staff are accidently pressing the wrong buttons or misreading screens. The fewer chances for error the better for everyone.”

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