NHS staff have told of being forced to buy protective kit from DIY stores as the supply scandal shaming the Government deepens.
Data from a tracker app developed to assess front line shortages in the war on Covid-19 showed only 52% of doctors doing high-risk procedures had the right long-sleeved gowns.
And 38% of respondents to NHSppe App, set up by Doctors’ Association UK, had no eye protection at all. The latest harrowing update came after the Mirror launched its Protect Us campaign, demanding that all NHS staff, carers and key workers get PPE.
DAUK policy lead Dr Jenny Vaughan said: “Three weeks after writing to the Prime Minister about the lack of PPE, frontline NHS doctors are still reporting shortages. "Doctors, nurses and healthcare