Provide WHO standard PPE immediately to ALL frontline NHS staff AND care workers · petition

What the petition asks

Immediately distribute WHO standard PPE to all frontline NHS staff and care home workers. Accept that this simple measure would greatly improve patient contacts and stop infecting frontline staff unnecessarily, potentially spreading COVID-19 further to at risk groups.
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This is a simple, achievable set of products to manufacture rapidly and immediately protects the lives of frontline staff. It will prevent the spread of the disease in an already over-stretched NHS.

All frontline staff are at risk due to the current government provision of inadequate PPE. Lives will be lost and the spread cannot be contained with such a glaring oversight by government.

This basic infection control measure in hospitals, primary care and care homes will save lives.

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

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