QUALITY CARE COMMISSION

摘要

Throughout the course of the corona-virus pandemic, one constant has been the need, and demand, for NHS frontline and care home workers to have adequate personal protective equipment (PPE). A specialist lighting journal like this isn't the place to get into the political rows that have ensued over this issue. But highlighting how the lighting industry has risen to the occasion and been using its expertise to help resolve PPE supply shortages, as well as responding to the wider coronavirus crisis, most definitely is part of our remit. In last month's Lighting Journal, we reported on the sterling work that BDP did under intense time pressure to get the first new NHS Nightingale Hospital up and running at London's ExCeL centre ('Rising to thechalIenge',May 2020,vol 85 no5). Another industry name that has responded to the call has been Southampton-based INDO Lighting, in its case joining forces with academics, the NHS and other manufacturing and engineering companies to develop an innovative new Powered Air-purifying Respirator (PAPR) protective device for NHS frontline staff treating patients with Covid-19.