User:Smartse/PPE


 * https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-supply-of-personal-protective-equipment-PPE-during-the-COVID-19-pandemic.pdf
 * https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ppe-mps-commons-public-accounts-committee-government-department-of-health-and-social-care-b939886.html
 * https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/stockpile-of-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-on-30-november-2020/stockpile-of-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-on-30-november-2020
 * Contains table with stockpiles as of November 2020 and daily use figures.
 * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/revealed-value-of-uk-pandemic-stockpile-fell-by-40-in-six-years
 * https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-supply-of-personal-protective-equipment-PPE-during-the-COVID-19-pandemic.pdf
 * Between February and July 2020, the Department spent £12.5 billion on 32 billion PPE items.2 There have been substantial increases in the unit price paid for PPE compared with 2019, caused by the global surge in demand and restrictions on exports in some countries. These increases ranged from a 166% increase for respirator masks to a 1310% increase for body bags. The Department had to pay such high prices because it was in the position of needing to buy huge volumes of PPE very quickly. Had government been able to buy PPE between February and July 2020 at the same unit prices it paid in 2019, then overall expenditure on PPE would have been £2.5 billion.
 * https://www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/article/dhsc-accelerating-disposal-ppe-4bn-stockpile-unusable
 * https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmpubacc/260/report.html
 * https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/key-ppe-items-not-in-pandemic-forward-planning-stockpile-as-covid-19-struck-bbc-finds
 * https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/03/bbc-stands-firm-against-ministers-criticism-panorama-show-ppe-coronavirus
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52440641 Coronavirus: UK failed to stockpile crucial PPE
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52455778
 * The Panorama investigation found there were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in the government's pandemic stockpile when Covid-19 reached the UK, and that the government ignored a warning from its own advisers to buy missing equipment.


 * https://www.bma.org.uk/media/5619/20220111-bma-covid-review-report-1-how-well-protected-was-the-medical-profession-final.pdf
 * There were real shortages of PPE at the start of the pandemic, shortages that could have been alleviated by prompter action and better management of the stockpile.
 * UK-wide guidance did not respond quickly enough to the changing evidence base on PPE and testing, leaving many medical professionals exposed to an airborne virus without proper RPE (Respiratory Protective Equipment).


 * British_government_response_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic
 * Controversies regarding COVID-19 contracts in the United Kingdom

Quality issues

 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60176283
 * https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3147
 * https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-ppe-unfit-chemical-intelligence-robert-gros-nhs-mansions/ (RS?)

By public
Not considered effective in March 2020. Changing by April. Useful timeline even though not RS.


 * When did first advice/mandates get issued?


 * July 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51205344


 * Any stats on imports?

Healthcare
Running short in early March.

only 35% of HCWs in the UK reported having access to adequate PPE at all times during the period of the first lockdown

Disposal

 * https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/30/government-disposed-of-3bn-items-of-ppe-bought-in-pandemic-data-shows
 * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/19/mysterious-pile-of-dumped-ppe-angers-people-in-calmore-new-forest-hampshire