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Give health & care workers Covid personal protective equipment and test kits now

Submitted on Monday 13th April 2020

Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Give health & care workers Covid personal protective equipment and test kits now

Petition Details

To purchase without delay adequate numbers of PEP and Covid-19 testing kits for all health and care workers to protect them and their patients.

Additional Information

It has become apparent that health workers, including care workers, are put at risk together with patients due to inadequate supplies of PEP and test kits for Covid-19.


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This petition was rejected

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 some of these petitions:

Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314229

Make Covid-19 testing available for all healthcare professionals: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304005

COVID-19 tests for everyone working in Social Care: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305065

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
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: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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 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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