Provide a full body suit to the NHS to use as a personal protective equipment · petition

What the petition asks

The PPE used at present in the NHS expose: head, knees and shoes. Providing a full body suit will prevent the spread of the virus and will protect the NHS staff from getting sick.The staff is risking to get infected and therefore to infect their families every day.

The Government needs to protect the NHS staff and to insure a safe work environment. Safety is a right that all the NHS members need to be insured, especially during the covid-19 emergency. The NHS staff is managing the covid-19 infected patients with ineffective and unsafe protective personal equipment (PPE). The latter are exposing the head, the knees and the shoes. In contrast, China and Italy have provided a full body suit as a PPE to safeguard the health of the staff. Please act soon.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Provide adequate PPE equipment for medical professionals working with COVID-19

Advice on the use of personal protective equipment is a matter for Public Health England, not the Government or Parliament.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coranavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

Timeline

17 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
31 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee