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.
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:
The following table shows the distribution of the new mechanical ventilators to date.
Mechanical Ventilators dispatched from Donnington Warehouse as of 4 May 2020 | |
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 |