Comment: Manufacturing: Ventilator teamwork shows what's possible with innovative thinking: A cross-sector UK response to Covid-19 has prompted those involved to ask – why can't UK industry work like this all the time?

IT'S BEEN NEARLY a year since the fateful day when Boris Johnson put out a plea for help from British industry. With the news feeds full of images of patients being turned away from Italian hospitals and the UK National Health Service short of ventilators, the question was: can you make them and make them fast?