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Personal Protective Equipment shortages in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic


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EU precurement scheme


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Intro

half of doctors in UK had purchased or received donated or their own PPE during the Coronavirus pandemic

Lack of equipment
A study of 16,000 doctors by the British Medical Journal found that half of doctors in UK had purchased or received donated or their own PPE during the Coronavirus pandemic

65% of doctors responding said they felt only partly, or not at all, protected from COVID-19, in their workplaces.

Recommendations change due to lack of equipment
Change in PPE guidance based on PPE

Warnings to NHS staff to not report PPE shortages
Frontline doctors have been warned by NHS management not to talk to the journalists or make social media posts about PPE shortages during the pandemic. Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) have received examples from across the country including the Essex, Lincolnshire, East of England and Yorkshire. At least one doctor was barred from working after making comments to journalists, another doctor was told to remove PPE they had purchased themselves

''“We are seeing draconian measures used to gag doctors and nurses on the frontline. The NHS will only benefit if we learn from each other’s experience. If we are unable to share our learning then patients will be put at risk."'' Dr Rinesh Parmar, chairman of the Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK)

Government response
Thirty per cent of doctors responding to the BMA study said they wouldn’t bother to report PPE or drug shortages, as they didn’t think anything would be done about it.

Priti Patel ‘sorry if people feel there have been failings’

NHS England has taken over media for many NHS staff and hospitals.

that clapping and other public gestures encouraged by the government are a distraction for lack of PPE

Organisations donating PPE
In an effort to make up for PPE shortfalls

had no respirator masks, relying on donations from local schools and companies.

Inquiry
told not to focus on PPE shortages