Submitted on Tuesday 24th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Provide urgently adequate PPE for all the NHS frontline workers.
Please act to ensure that all frontline NHS staff have access to adequate PPE equipment. According to research and Government Guidlines, there may be no symptoms of the virus in the early stage of the infection, therefore all NHS staff have jeopardised their own health.
“Over the weekend, there were increasing reports of a lack of PPE available to frontline staff – in hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes and community nurses visiting people in their homes.”
“ While the exact figure is not known, a number of healthcare professionals around the world have died following exposure to the virus while caring for patients.“ Nursing Notes 2020
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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.
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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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