A doctor on the frontline of Britain's coronavirus outbreak has revealed how staff must wear wafer-thin paper masks, plastic aprons and gloves instead of full protective gear. They had high-tech masks ...

NHS medics fighting on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic are being force to cut up plastic curtains and use them as gowns, it has been claimed. Health Secretary Matt Hancock had previously ...

Nissan has become the latest company to use its manufacturing expertise to help make protective aprons for the NHS workers. A team of volunteers at the firm’s Sunderland plant took just eight days to ...

Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, has previously stated that 742 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been delivered to help during the pandemic. However, hospital staff members ...

Desperate medics battling Covid-19 say they are cutting up hospital curtains to make gowns and using bits of plastic as makeshift masks due to kit shortages. Damning accounts from the front line also ...

Several studies show that healthcare workers clothing can become contaminated with potentially pathogenic microorganisms e.g. Staphylococcus aureus. Aprons are also included as part of healthcare ...

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A Black Country care provider has condemned firms cashing in on Covid-19 after it was asked to pay £2 for a plastic, throw-away apron which normally sells for two pence. Wednesbury-based Awarding Care ...

Doctors and nurses have been asked to reuse gowns when treating coronavirus patients due to a lack of supply. The Department of Health (DoH) has reversed previous guidance given to medical staff to ...

A Black Country care provider has condemned firms cashing in on Covid-19 after it was asked to pay £2 for a plastic, throw-away apron which normally sells for two pence. Wednesbury-based Awarding Care ...