Submitted by Janet Newsham on Friday 1st November 2024
Published on Monday 11th November 2024
Current status: Closed
Closed: Sunday 11th May 2025
Signatures: 7,883
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Air ~ Care workers ~ Covid ~ Covid tests ~ Damaged ~ Ensure ~ Long Covid ~ Masks ~ New rules ~ Prevent ~ Quality ~ risk ~ setting ~ Settings ~ Social care ~ Staff ~ Standards ~ STAY HOME ~ testing
Introduce new air quality and PPE rules for health and social care settings
We want the Government to set new rules on air quality and infection control in health and social care settings, to prevent and control airborne infections, with new ventilation and filtration requirements, new PPE standards and staffing rules, and monitoring and inspection to ensure compliance.
Covid and other infectious diseases are spread by airborne aerosols. There are key ways to prevent them, by improving air quality and using well-fitting respiratory masks. Some research has found that reinfection can increase the risk of long-term serious organ damage and care workers having amongst the highest prevalence of long Covid. There are many tools to protect people in health and social care, including improving ventilation/air filtration, reintroducing PPE masks and Covid testing, and supporting ill staff to stay home.
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