Ventilators

(asked on 9th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many mechanical ventilators (a) were purchased and (b) have been used since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 16th December 2020

As of 9 December, there are over 30,000 mechanical ventilators available to patients across the United Kingdom. This compares to around 9,000 at the start of the pandemic in March.

Of the additional stock that has arrived and is available to the National Health Service, 15,150 have been bought via the Prime Minister’s ventilator challenge and 7,150 from established suppliers.

Of the 22,300 mechanical ventilators bought and delivered since March, 3,300 have been distributed to hospitals across the UK and 19,000 remain in storage ready to be distributed if needed.

Figures on the numbers of patients on ventilators are reported daily at the following link:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

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