Submitted on Thursday 19th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Timely & adequate provision of full Personal Protective Equipment for NHS staff
To ensure that frontline NHS staff are provided (without delay) with full personal protective equipment (comprising an FFP3 mask-which offer high levels of respiratory protection, visors, surgical gowns and two pairs of gloves each).
Also ensure that FIT testing for PPE is timely, safe and adequate
Frontline NHS staff are at risk of spreading and dying from Covid-19 after the protective gear requirements for health workers treating those infected were downgraded last week.
Current protocol for healthcare workers treating patients with potential covid-19 is just a standard surgical mask and plastic apron for protection.
The fear is that healthcare workers pass the infection on to other patients and those in their household after catching it at work because of poor protection.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: 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: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: www.gov.uk/coronavirus
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: 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: 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: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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