The government has been unable to say how much personal protective equipment is still lacking in the fight against coronavirus, as the number of NHS staff confirmed to have died of the illness ...
According to a new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the carbon footprint of personal protective equipment (PPE) provided to health and social care staff in England ...
NHS bosses have appealed to businesses across Devon to donate their idle stocks of personal protective equipment to doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus. It comes due to a shortage of masks, aprons ...
Desperate medics battling Covid-19 say they are cutting up hospital curtains to make gowns and using bits of plastic as makeshift masks due to kit shortages. Damning accounts from the front line also ...
A pest firm has been forced to pay £70million after supplying the NHS with faulty masks and gowns at the height of the pandemic. Pestfix employed just 16 people and had net assets of £18,000 when the ...
No eye protection whatsoever was included in the standard GP PPE delivery that we received on 11 March – only plastic aprons, gloves and basic masks. ‘I think most GPs feel that the PPE supplied by ...
Here’s a simple question: should you be wearing face-masks outside during this pandemic? The answer seems to be obviously, yes, especially if the Far East is any guide. Even the US Centers for Disease ...
Nearly £10billion in taxpayer cash was wasted on faulty PPE during the pandemic, the public spending watchdog has confirmed. Auditors trawled through the accounts of Department of Health and Social ...