JEFF SMITH

hen health secretary Matt W Hancock in mid-March gave his ‘call to arms’ for manufacturers to help make ventilators for the coronavirus fight, I was immediately keen with my business ICD to do what I could. But after two weeks of trying I was getting nowhere with the official routes.

So I started looking around at what else we could help with. There was the personal protective equipment, or PPE, shortage issue among health workers. Freddie Lee, who is an old