This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Provide effective Personal Protective Equipment(PPE) to healthcare professionals
We need to adopt national advanced PPE for all healthcare workers coming into contact with potential or confirmed patients with COVID-19. PPE such as surgical masks, aprons and gloves is not enough! We need more protective PPE. This includes: FFP3 masks, visors, elbow length gloves, surgical gowns.
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NHS healthcare workers are not provided with apropriate PPE. We need to work in a safe environment that doesn't put us or the public at risk. Who is going take care of the public if the healthcare workers are getting ill? How can you be sure that the ordinary PPE is enough to prevent us from a new unknown virus? NHS workers will get ill and NHS will pay with lives and money. Therefore, we need use the most effective PPE that we currently have, not what is second best.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304243
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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