Trusts said they have now resolved supply issues by increasing tank deliveries from main NHS supplier BOC
Ambulance crews in parts of the country hard hit by covid-19 have run very low on oxygen or out of it entirely on several occasions in the last month,
HSJ has learnt.
HSJ understands East of England Ambulance Service Trust had to dispatch ambulance crews with very limited oxygen supply earlier this month due to strained tank supplies. At one point, crews were sent out with “a single, quarter-full portable oxygen bottle where they used to have at least four portable bottles on the vehicle”, according to one source close to the trust.