Rejected petition Provide WHO recommended PPE for all NHS and FRONT LINE/ KEY WORKERS.

Rejected on 26 May 2020

I want the government to provide WHO recommended PPE to ALL staff coming into contact with Covid19 positive and suspected patients and NOT the substandard PPE that PHE have decided with no clear clinical evidence is suitable.

PHE making up your own rules and advice without providing clear evidence is tantamount to manslaughter. You are putting front line workers at risk and ALL the evidence suggests that. There is NO evidence to suggest down grading PPE is the way to protect patients, staff and the wider public.

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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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:

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

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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