Manufacturers cast doubt on UK ventilator target
Dyson has received an order for 10,000 units, pending regulatory approval. The firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, has drawn up its design from scratch in collaboration with Cambridge-based medical firm The Technology Partnership.Dyson has said it is hopeful its design would be approved within days, which would allow it to begin production within two weeks. However, there has since been doubt cast on whether that timescale for approval was realistic.
As well as asking the consortium for help in sourcing parts, it is thought two new manufacturing facilities will be opened - one in the North and one in the South West. There has also been confusion about why the UK did not participate in an EU-wide procurement order for tens of thousands of new ventilators.
Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the UK was capable of producing all the units it needed itself. But manufacturers have said the country may not to be able to do so in the timeframe required to face the peak of UK infections.One thing is clear: there is no such thing as ordering too many, from wherever made by whomever.
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