Submitted on Wednesday 1st April 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 26th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Provide PPE for all Sonographers during the Covid 19 pandemic.
10.2 million ultrasounds were performed in England in 2018/2019, including timely screening for congenital fetal abnormalities, and essential cancer diagnoses. Wuhan statistics reveal higher infection rates of C-19 amongst sonographers than other clinicians. We are thought to be more vulnerable due
to prolonged, close contact to patients. Current guidance suggests PPE is only required for suspected/confirmed C-19 but sonographers are regularly less than 2 metres away from asymptomatic patients who can still spread the virus.
These services can’t stop during this pandemic, but without adequate PPE, we can’t protect ourselves or our patients from this deadly virus. Please sign our petition and lobby the government to provide better PPE guidance and equipment for the ultrasound workforce
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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/314229
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: 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: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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