Thread by @DRTomlinsonEP

Depressingly predictable, but with a twist 🙂:

'Dr Yvonne Doyle, Medical Director at PHE, said: “NHS staff are under immense pressures and their safety has always been our highest priority.'
#FreshAirNHS #COVIDisAirborne

https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1350033678362177538

'The NHS Infection Prevention Control group has reviewed the latest evidence and has advised that PPE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE WORN as laid out in the current IPC guidance, with FFP3 masks required for staff undertaking clinical aerosol generating procedures.'

The twist?

PHE IPC guidance, p2:

'Please note that this guidance is of a general nature AND THAT AN EMPLOYER SHOULD CONSIDER THE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL PLACE OF WORK AND COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE LEGISLATION, including the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.'

So?

WE have all learned that working on general COVID19 wards lacking suitable ventilation and airborne PPE is a HEALTHCARE WORKER KILLER.

SO THE Q IS, HAVE NHS TRUST CEOs LEARNED THAT WORKING ON GENERAL COVID19 WARDS LACKING VENTILATION AND AIRBORNE PPE IS THEIR #1 STAFF KILLER?!

These NHS Trusts know all about this and allow FFP3 (or equivalent) for ALL COVID19-facing HCWs:

@UHP_NHS 💙
@CUH_NHS 💙
@RDEhospitals 💙
@UHSFT 💙

Thank you! 🙏

@mjb302 @microlabdoc @mancunianmedic

So does YOUR NHS Trust CEO know how financially exposed they are if they continue to deprive you of FFP3 (or equivalent) RPE?

I reckon your CEO would thank you if you told them. 🙂
#compassionate #caring #NHS
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