Mental Health Services: Protective Clothing

(asked on 27th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the current availability of level 3 PPE in 24-hour mental health wards on the ability of frontline staff to do their job (a) safely and (b) effectively.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 13th May 2020

We are working around the clock to give the health and social care sector and wider National Health service the equipment and support they need to tackle this outbreak.

The NHS Supply Chain and Clipper Logistics supported by the Armed Forces, are working to push personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies to every NHS trust in England, expanding from 226 NHS trusts prior to the pandemic, to now 58,000 different providers.

On 28 April, we delivered over 21 million items of PPE across the health and social care system within England. This figure included 1.4 million masks.

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