Minister said NHS could use Dyson ventilators to help firm’s marketing, Covid inquiry told
Machines could be marketed as ‘used in UK hospitals’ after James Dyson spoke to PM, inquiry hearsA minister warned a senior official that ventilators might need to be bought from Sir James Dyson “so that he [could] then market [them] internationally” as “being used in UK hospitals” after the businessman spoke to Boris Johnson, the Covid inquiry has heard.The message from Lord Agnew, a Tory Treasury minister, to the government’s chief commercial officer, Gareth Rhys Williams, emerged as the public inquiry into the pandemic started a four-week examination of procurement. Continue reading...
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Machines could be marketed as ‘used in UK hospitals’ after James Dyson spoke to PM, inquiry hears
A minister warned a senior official that ventilators might need to be bought from Sir James Dyson “so that he [could] then market [them] internationally” as “being used in UK hospitals” after the businessman spoke to Boris Johnson, the Covid inquiry has heard.
The message from Lord Agnew, a Tory Treasury minister, to the government’s chief commercial officer, Gareth Rhys Williams, emerged as the public inquiry into the pandemic started a four-week examination of procurement. Continue reading...
