Rejected petition Give NHS staff the do not treat order if they have no PPE or inadequate PPE.

FROM A SIMPLE PROTECTION OF THE NHS point of view if staff continue to treat while risking their lives - they risk staff numbers crumbling due to staff deaths / being off sick = which means in effect they are consequentially indirectly refusing to treat by being unable to treat.

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To protect the NHS AND SAVE LIVES

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about NHS staffing are an operational matter for individual NHS trusts, not the Government or House of Commons.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

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

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/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 13 April 2020
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