Submitted on Tuesday 14th April 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 26th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Provide COVID-19 testing and PPE to residents and care workers
Ensure that all residents and carers in homes and hospices are tested for coronavirus and any other virus that will follow.
Provide PPE for care workers to the same standard as the NHS.
Legislate for equality in level of care for NHS and care workers and patients.
I buried my father today, he had dementia but sadly caught coronavirus and passed away two weeks ago. We couldn’t be with him but he was cared for by amazing staff who were on lockdown along with the patients. As there are no tests being carried out outside of hospitals, it is impossible to say whether the carers are carrying anything in. This could have saved him but equally as important there are amazing carers that are putting their lives on the line and their safety has not been sufficiently considered
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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 these petitions calling for the same action:
Supply PPE to all Health and Social Care workers including community carers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/314229
Provide urgent support and PPE to carers during coronavirus crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312960
We would like the government to consider social care as equally important to NHS: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302897
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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