Carers: Protective Clothing

(asked on 4th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the average cost of supplying personal protective equipment to personal carers for disabled people funding their own care.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 18th May 2020

We continue to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to selected wholesalers to support social care and additionally, we are pushing PPE to all Local Resilience Forums (LRFs). These multi-agency LRF partnerships are made up of representatives that include local public services and local authorities. This is intended to help LRFs respond to urgent local spikes in need across the adult social care system and other front-line services, where providers are unable to access PPE through their usual routes. LRFs have not been charged for the stock of PPE provided to them for onward distribution to local service providers.

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