The first adapted ventilator design presented by the government’s Ventilator Challenge UK consortium has received regulatory approval. The UK Government has now placed an order for 15,000.
It is the Penlon Prima ESO2, which has been adapted from an earlier (tried-and-tested) design.
The news follows the arrival of Smiths paraPAC Plus to the NHS front line in various locations last weekend. Eighty paraPAC ventilators were produced last week, with production now being ramped up into the hundreds. As an existing device, the paraPAC already had MHRA approval.
