Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the Government has to review guidance on the use of personal protective equipment to protect NHS health and social care workers ahead of a second wave of covid-19.

We withdrew the ‘Considerations for acute personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages guidance’ on 9 September because our supply position has improved.

Public Health England published infection prevention and control (IPC) Guidance on 20 August 2020 ‘COVID-19: Guidance for the remobilisation of services within health and care settings: Infection prevention and control recommendations’. This guidance supersedes the COVID-19 United Kingdom IPC guidance of 18 June 2020.