UK regulators, including the Health and Safety Executive, the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, the Office for Product Safety and Standards and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, should establish an emergency healthcare equipment cross-regulator plan for future pandemics.

The plan must include arrangements for:

coordination of written guidance from regulators to ensure that it is clear, concise and updated when required; and
increasing testing house capacity and the deployment of suitable inspection regimes both to reduce the quantity of non-compliant equipment entering the system and to improve enforcement.