At the moment my two choices are the Philips Respisonics Bipap Focus and the Resmed S9 Auto with H5i humidifier. Both are around the £350 mark excl hose and mask. I can't decide between the two. How much are they new?
I suffer from obstructive sleep apnea to the extant that anyone who shares the room with me will generally end up staying awake to make sure I'm still breathing cos I do stop for upto a minute, in which i jolt awake.
Are you buying this as a private patient or is the choice what is being offered by the NHS?
The S9 is a great device but it is very nearly obsolete (replaced by air sense 10) If you get it through the nhs then this isn't a problem because if it goes wrong you will get an airsense as replacement. If you are buying private then I wouldn't buy an S9 as the parts will start to become obsolete very soon.
Personally I don't see why anyone would buy the Phillips over ResMed. The ResMed is a better device and I really do rate our customer service very highly. We are a bit more expensive than the competitors but the patient backup is very good here. We are encouraged to do everything we can to help patients get on with the treatment. The ResMed masks are in my opinion way ahead of our competitors now and we have just launce the new series which have more testing and innovation that anything else out there. Generally the only reason for not buying ResMed stuff will be that we are a little bit more expensive than the competitors.
I don't work in the uk side of the business but Im in the same room as the customer service team and I highly recommend speaking to them - 08009177071.