The UK has been prevented from donating “tens of millions” of surplus PPE items throughout the pandemic due to Whitehall red tape, The Independent understands. Britain has an excess of personal ...

The Government is currently spending around £6.7 million per week to store the UK’s stock of personal protective equipment (PPE), a senior Whitehall official has told MPs. Sir Chris Wormald, permanent ...

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UK Covid Waste: The UK decided to get rid of the stock as it was costing too much to store it as last year the country spent $28.1 million (£23 million) on storage. About 64.4 million surgical face ...

London, United Kingdom - Earth Safe PPE, the pioneering sustainability leader in PPE Recycling and Textile recycling, has been awarded two major accolades at the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards ...

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 amount of public money wasted on PPE during the pandemic was enough to save every household in the UK more than £310, new figures show. In February the Government admitted it had blown an ...

A lack of PPE during the Covid pandemic meant some GPs wore repurposed bin bags for aprons, a public inquiry has heard. Dr Chris Williams, deputy chairman of the Royal College of GPs, told the ...

Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been spent on Covid-related personal protective equipment (PPE) that never left China. Ministers signed off orders for 64.4 million surgical facemasks and ...

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 ...