More than 300 million items of PPE in the government's national stockpile cannot be used by frontline health workers because they have passed their expiry date, The Independent can reveal. There have ...

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Sir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), said that the UK is currently holding around 12.6 billion items of PPE such as masks, gloves and aprons. He ...

This is based on a snapshot figure from a year ago, and doesn’t include gloves which make up around 45% of the UK’s PPE demand. Thanks to the efforts of people across Whitehall, this country is now ...

A mountain of PPE which was dumped near a nature reserve has finally been cleared away. Healthcare workers were among those left furious after piles of boxes containing aprons and face masks were left ...

The government has been unable to say how much personal protective equipment is still lacking in the fight against coronavirus, as the number of NHS staff confirmed to have died of the illness ...

Another £6billion of taxpayer cash was 'wasted' on Covid-era equipment last year, it was revealed today. It means the Department of Health has now lost £14.9billion on over-priced, faulty or unused ...

Unused personal protective equipment bought for hundreds of thousands of pounds is being auctioned off by the Government for as little as £250. Millions of surplus aprons, visors, hand sanitisers and ...

A high-profile shipment to the UK of surgical gowns, hailed by ministers as a solution to Britain’s personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages, has ended with little of the expected fanfare – with ...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) worth around £1.4bn that was procured during the COVID-19 pandemic has been destroyed or written off in what has been branded a “staggering waste” of public funds.

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen more and more people admitted to hospital, where the high infection rate of the virus makes use of personal protection equipment (PPE) vital for ...