It was announced last night that Oxvent team has been shortlisted by the U.K. government to go to the next stage of testing for safety and usability of the company’s ventilator prototype. This is following the government’s recent callout for rapidly deployable ventilator designs in response to the Coronavirus pandemic and forecasted acute shortage of ventilators.
Oxvent says that this green light enables the company to test the prototype ventilators. If the ventilator then passes the required MHRA safety tests, it will rapidly move into production with the medical manufacturing company, Smith and Nephew (S&N) based in Hull.
After manufacture it would be deployed through the NHS. “Our design could also be used in other healthcare settings,” Oxvent says.