It can take up to 45 minutes to clean ambulances once
they have transported a patient suspected of having
COVID-19.
Some ambulance cleaning centres can also be some
distance away from their base or hospitals – adding
strain and delay on an already busy and pressurised
service as the vehicles cannot be used until cleaning
is completed.
DASA has today launched a new Innovation Focus Area as
part of its Open Call for
Innovation seeking industry’s help to identify
rapid sanitising technology solutions that can be
demonstrated in a live trial on an ambulance.
Solutions must be suitable for rapid deployment to
clean public sector vehicles following the transport of
patients with the COVID-19 virus.
Ideally solutions will have wider applicability than
just ambulances, which might include, buses, trains,
and other blue light services or even in hospital
wards/rooms.
Solutions which are mobile, allow ease of operation and
maintenance, robust and reliable are of particular
interest.
More details can
be found here.
DASA is working in conjunction with the Welsh
Government, The Small Business Research Initiative
(SBRI) Centre of Excellence, the Welsh Ambulance
Service, Innovate UK, and the Defence Science and
Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
