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CASE STUDY<\/span>

Delivering vital medical equipment,

saving lives <\/h2> <\/div>

Following a call with the Prime Minister, Dick Elsy, CEO of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult convened an industrial consortium to support produce vital ventilator devices and support the NHS in its fight against Covid-19. <\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n \n

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\n NHS stock of ventilators within 12 weeks\n <\/div> <\/div>\n\n
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\n additional ventilators delivered to UK hospitals\n <\/div> <\/div>\n\n
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\n of novel PPE manufacturing \n <\/div> <\/div>\n\n
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\n An amazing and humbling experience for Penlon to be a part of such a nationally important project. There is nothing more purposeful for a UK medical device company than rising to an occasion like this to save thousands of lives.<\/em> <\/p>\n \n

\n Guru Krishnamoorthy<\/strong>
CEO Penlon <\/div>\n \n \n
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Supporting the NHS frontline and social care services<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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On 16th<\/sup> March 2020, the Prime Minister spoke to over sixty of the UK\u2019s leading manufacturing businesses and organisations, calling on them to support the NHS and saves lives by producing vital medical equipment, such as ventilators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reaching out to contacts throughout the UK\u2019s engineering community, the High Value Manufacturing Catapult\u2019s CEO Dick Elsy convened an industrial consortium from across the aerospace, automotive, motorsport and medical sectors to tackle the challenge – ensuring that the NHS front line had the tools and equipment it needed to care for critically ill Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Against a backdrop of life or death urgency, the VentilatorChallengeUK consortium \u2013 made up of over 5000 volunteers – established seven new large-scale manufacturing facilities at sites including the HVM Catapult\u2019s own AMRC Cymru in Broughton, as well as restructuring existing Smiths Medical and Penlon operations. The consortium then worked with great determination and energy to scale-up the production of the Penlon ESO 2 Emergency Ventilator, based on existing technology from Oxfordshire-based Penlon and an existing device from Smiths Group, the Smiths paraPACTM<\/sup> plus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This coalition of the very best of this country\u2019s people and capability across different sectors truly showcased the strength of the manufacturing industry in the UK. The VentilatorChallengeUK consortium produced 13,437 ventilators in only twelve weeks, more than doubling the stock available to the NHS and building a resilient stock should ventilators be required in the UK in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HVM Catapult\u2019s seven Centres have also been active in ensuring that as much PPE as possible gets to the NHS front line and to social care services. This was done both by donating over 100,000 items of PPE kit and by manufacturing key items, such as face visors and shields for aerosol-generating procedures, using 3D-printing and batch cutting techniques to produce them as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion<\/div>
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Highlighting the role of women in science and innovation<\/div>\n
By championing innovative life science technology and new approaches, Medicines Discovery Catapult is supporting UK innovators to succeed. Medicines Discovery Catapult recognises that diversity in the workforce underpins the creative and innovative thinking essential for success in this sector. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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Building the next generation of thermal characterisation technologies<\/div>\n
University of Bristol and Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult form their first commercial agreement to develop a technology to measure the thermal properties of semiconductor wafers. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n
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