NHS Trusts: Ventilators

(asked on 21st April 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 new ventilators have been (a) procured and (b) delivered to NHS trusts in response to the covid-19 pandemic.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 11th May 2020

At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in March there were more than 8,000 mechanical ventilators in hospitals across the United Kingdom. As of 4 May, we have around 10,900 mechanical ventilators available to National Health Service patients. In addition, there are also 6,291 non-invasive ventilators available to the NHS across the UK which were not available before the start of the crisis in mid-March plus a further 73 from the private sector.

These figures will continue to rise as we procure further equipment and more products from the Prime Minister’s ventilator challenge become available.

Mechanical ventilators are allocated pro rata between England and the devolved administrations, but then within each nation decisions of where to send ventilators are based on clinical need. In England hospitals can make a bid for ventilators and these are discussed and allocated with regional NHS England and NHS Improvement teams. Details can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/C0233-ventilator-consumables-8-april.pdf

The following table shows the distribution of the new mechanical ventilators to date.

Mechanical Ventilators dispatched from Donnington Warehouse as of 4 May 2020
(this excludes those still in warehouses and those made and held by the private sector)

Location

Number of Mechanical Ventilators

Airedale General Hospital

2

Basildon University Hospital

10

Countess of Chester Hospital

5

East Surrey Hospital

5

Essex and Herts Air Ambulance

1

Gloucester Royal Hospital

1

Guernsey

8

Isle of Man

3

Jersey

5

Kings Mill Hospital

2

Leighton Hospital

7

Lister Hospital

2

London Ambulance Service

19

London NHS Nightingale

168

Manchester General Hospital

5

Manchester Royal Infirmary

9

North Manchester General Hospital

3

Northern Ireland

28

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

1

Royal Lancaster Infirmary

2

Royal Oldham Hospital

3

Royal Papworth Hospital

54

Scotland

77

South Central Amublance

2

Southport General Hospital

8

St George’s University Hospital Foundation Trust

4

St Mary’s Hospital

5

Tameside General Hospital

8

UK Overseas Territories

11

Wales

46

NHS London (for onward distribution)

125

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

3

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

6

Harrogate NHS Nightingale

7

South West Region (for onward distribution)

5

Bristol NHS Nightingale

9

North East NHS Nightingale

2

Warwick Hospital

2

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

2

Grand Total

665

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