Quote ="Sal Paradise"As a private business surely it your responsibility to your employees to provide them with PPE? If you have failed to do so surely that is failing at your end and there is nobody else to blame but the procurement team within your organisation? I have watched plenty of medical professionals on the morning news and despite prompting from the likes of Piers and Naga it is a while since you have heard any say they don't have enough ventilators or PPE - how many items have actually been delivered in the last month 700m+? Much to the disappointment of both
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You quite deliberately ignored the part where I said that we have solved it ourselves, at considerable cost.
The point however, is that of course we have always had rolling stock of PPE and trusted suppliers; when this thing blew up, we were told by the Govt that every location would receive an allocation of PPE from central stock, in acknowledgment of the fact that they had requisitioned the majority of stock in the UK. Most of my locations never got that allocation, and have been unable to use the emergency procurement line - so there has been a lag in supply, which has probably resulted in way more infections in our settings and in elderly services.
WC - re testing - they are quite specifically only permitted to drive themselves, or be transported there by a member of their household; so if there is no driver in the family, no test.
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