This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition The recall of Parliament to address shortage of PPE for people in public Sector
To address the chronic shortage of personal,protection equipment PPE within the NHS and Social Care sector. The shortage is placing staff at risk those who are trying to protect our loved ones.
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Because only Government can deal with this humanitarian emergency only Central Government can organise this.
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Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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Provide all workers dealing with the public PPE to be protected from COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307866
Protect essential workers from contracting and spreading Covid-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/306387
Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314229
Provide adequate PPE equipment for medical professionals working with COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304243
Provide urgent support and PPE to carers during coronavirus crisis: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312960
Suitable equipment to protect our front-line police officers from COVID-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310079
Fund and provide safety clothing for the supermarket staff on the frontline: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305874
COVID-19: Commandeer production of British-made PPE for frontline staff: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312024
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
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 can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
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 coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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