Type of Intervention: Other Announcement
Sectors Involved: Private Sector and Businesses
Intervention Categories: Planning and strategy; Creation of or release of plans; Non-governmental interventions; Businesses
Level of Jurisdiction: National
Lead People/Agency: 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Cabinet Office (decision makers)
Business leaders (implementers)
Overview: The UK Prime Minister encouraged over sixty of the UK’s leading manufacturing businesses and organisations to help the UK step up production of vital medical equipment, such as ventilators.
Subsequent technical specifications were published and there were periodic updates on the challenge, which ultimately produced a very limited number (~250) of ventilators for use in the NHS response to Covid-19
Full details here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-call-with-uks-leading-manufacturers-16-march-2020
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Type of Justification: Advice of INTERNAL government advisory committee or group
Source of Evidence or Justification: National – government