This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Provide a full body suit to the NHS to use as a personal protective equipment
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.
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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.
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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/
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