Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

(asked on 14th October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the operational capacity of the PPE portal; what plans his Department has to reimburse (a) local authorities, (b) care homes and (c) other organisations eligible to use that portal for costs of alternative procurement in the event that adequate personal protective equipment in unavailable through the portal during the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 20th October 2020

All adult social care homes, domiciliary care providers, community pharmacies, children’s care homes and secure homes, children’s special schools, community drug and alcohol services, residential drug and alcohol services; and general practitioners, optometrists and dentists with National Health Service patients, will be supplied with personal protective equipment (PPE) for their COVID-19 needs via the PPE Portal. The order limits on the PPE portal are being increased in a phased approach so that all eligible providers will be able to order PPE to meet all of their COVID-19 PPE needs, with the majority of providers’ order limits already at this point.

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