Personal protective equipment
Equipment designed to help protect an individual from hazards
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, electrical, heat, chemical, biohazards, and airborne particulate matter. Protective equipment may be worn for job-related occupational safety and health purposes, as well as for sports and other recreational activities. Protective clothing is applied to traditional categories of clothing, and protective gear applies to items such as pads, guards, shields, or masks, and others. PPE suits can be similar in appearance to a cleanroom suit.
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NHS was within 'six or seven hours' of running out of PPE, says Hancock Some hospitals in England were within "six or seven hours" of running out of personal protective equipment in the early stages of the COVID pandemic, a former health secretary has admitted.Sky News - Published | |
PPE supply in Welsh care homes was 'inconsistent', inquiry hearsThe supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) in Welsh care homes was 'inconsistent', the UK COVID Inquiry has been told.Sky News - Published | |
Nearly £10bn written off value of PPE bought during pandemicThe government has written off £9.9bn of the £13.6bn it spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) in the pandemic due to the gear being unusable or having lost its value.Sky News - Published | |
'The NHS sold out its staff': Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health serviceHundreds of doctors are planning to sue the NHS over claims inadequate PPE on the frontline has left them with long COVID, disabled, and in financial ruin.Sky News - Published | |
Michelle Mone 'surprised' she's not been asked about 'bras and knickers' amid PPE scandal falloutMichelle Mone has hit out at the "obsession" with her personal life - claiming she is surprised the Daily Mirror hasn't asked about her "bras and knickers" following their latest report.Sky News - Published | |
Michelle Mone's husband says family 'treated as punchbag' in row over PPEBaroness Michelle Mone’s husband has hit out at the government and said his family has been “treated as a punchbag” in a row over personal protective equipment (PPE) procurement during the..Sky News - Published | |
Baroness Mone facing legal action following 'threats' to sue newspaper over PPE coverageBaroness Michelle Mone is facing possible legal action by a newspaper which is seeking to recover the money it spent responding to her "threats" to sue over its reporting on the personal protective..Sky News - Published | |
Labour demands Gove answers questions over Michelle Mone PPE controversyMichael Gove is facing calls to answer questions before MPs over PPE firm Medpro after Baroness Michelle Mone admitted she stands to benefit from a deal between the government and the firm.Sky News - Published | |
Baroness Mone admits she stands to benefit from PPE contractBaroness Michelle Mone has admitted she stands to benefit from a contract between the government and PPE firm Medpro.Sky News - Published | |
Denying links to PPE firm awarded huge contracts was an 'error', Michelle Mone saysBaroness Michelle Mone says she regrets denying her connection to a PPE firm awarded huge contracts during the pandemic - and which is now being investigated by the National Crime Agency (NCA).Sky News - Published | |
West Bengal: LoP Suvendu Adhikari writes to ED director, I-T, Health ministry, alleges probe in purchase of PPE kits during Covid pandemicSuvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, has written to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), alleging a financial scam in the purchase of PPE kits and other medical..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Huge pile of unused PPE dumped near nature reserve A mountain of unused packs of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been discovered dumped on land in the New Forest in Hampshire.Sky News - Published | |
Government legal bill to fight PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone tops £10m The government has racked up a legal bill of more than £10m to fight a firm linked to Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone over surgical gowns it provided during the pandemic.Sky News - Published | Government sues firm at centre of PPE supply row The government has issued civil legal proceedings against a firm at the centre of a row over the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the pandemic.Sky News - Published |
Baroness Michelle Mone loses Conservative whip amid PPE contracts controversyTory peer Baroness Michelle Mone - who is at the centre of controversy over her alleged links to a firm awarded £200m of PPE contracts - has lost the Conservative whip, Rishi Sunak has confirmed.Sky News - Published | PPE contract documents will be published by government - but not until after probes end The government has agreed to publish documents relating to £200m of personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts given to a company that has been linked to a Conservative peer - but not until probes..Sky News - Published |
Who is Michelle Mone and what is the PPE row? Baroness Michelle Mone will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords after questions around her alleged links to a firm awarded contracts for personal protective equipment (PPE) intensified.Sky News - Published | Baroness Michelle Mone to take leave of absence from House of Lords amid PPE contracts controversyTory peer Baroness Michelle Mone will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords with immediate effect, the Press Association understands.Sky News - Published |
Labour tries to force release of details behind £200m PPE contracts linked to Tory peer Labour will try to force the government to publish documents relating to £200m of personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts given to a company that has been linked to a Conservative peer.Sky News - Published | Questions raised over PPE contract linked to Tory peer Baroness Mone The government is under pressure to release records relating to a multi-million pound PPE contract linked to Tory peer Baroness Mone.Sky News - Published |
'Shameful and toxic': MPs demand answers over billions of PPE going up in smoke MPs are demanding answers over the financial and environmental cost of plans to burn some of the billions of pounds of PPE bought during the pandemic that will not be used by the NHS.Sky News - Published | Assam: TMC, Left paries demand CBI probe into PPE kits 'scam'Four Left parties alleged that all norms were flouted by the NHM, Assam, while awarding contracts for supply of medical equipment to fight COVID-19.DNA - Published |
AAP neta: Himanta gave PPE kit deal to kin’s firmIndiaTimes - Published | Not a single penny was transacted: Assam CMAssam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday dismissed Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s allegations of corruption and linking his wife to a controversy over PPE kit supply in the state and said the AAP..IndiaTimes - Published |
Sisodia accuses Assam CM of giving govt PPE kit deals to firms of wife, son's business partners; Assam govt refutes allegationsAs India battled the Covid pandemic in 2020, then Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma gave contracts to companies of his wife and son's business partners to supply PPE kits above market rates,..IndiaTimes - Published | Storing COVID-related PPE costs taxpayer estimated £3.3m a week, government says Storing personal protective equipment (PPE) related to COVID is costing the taxpayer an estimated £3.3m each week, the government has revealed, as households struggle to make ends meet amid the cost..Sky News - Published |
Kerala cleared PPE kit purchase at 3 times market price: Reply to RTI queryIndiaTimes - Published | Nearly £9bn spent on PPE during coronavirus pandemic written off, Govt accounts show Nearly £9bn spent by the government on personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic has been written off, annual accounts have shown.Sky News - Published |
