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Covid-19: Unusable PPE worth £4bn will be burned, says spending watchdog


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The parliamentary watchdog on public spending has accused the Department of Health and Social Care for England of wasting £4bn of taxpayers’ money on unusable personal protective equipment in the first year of the covid-19 pandemic and of planning to burn much of it to “generate power.”1

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee made the claim in its report on the Department of Health and Social Care’s accounts for 2020-21, the first year of the pandemic.

The report paints a damning picture of the fallout from the government’s rush to compete with the rest of the world to procure PPE, bypassing the usual due diligence in its race to secure supplies. Of £12bn spent on PPE, £4bn was spent on items that failed to meet NHS standards and have remained unused, the report said.

The committee claimed that the department now faces the costs of getting rid of millions of unusable items and has appointed two commercial waste companies to dispose of 15 000 pallets a month through a combination of burning and recycling. The costs and environmental effects are “unclear” the report noted.

https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1435

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'World- beating', indeed!!

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£12 billion spent in total, yet evidence suggests it did not halt covid spread in the heath care sector to normal infection levels. :hmm: 

28 Sep 2020 - Covid-19 responsible for a third of nurse absences in April.

 Data showed that in April, 256,053 full-time equivalent (FTE) nursing days were lost owing to Covid-19 related sickness, equating to 37.6% of absences.

Overall, 1,349,599 days of work were lost in the NHS in England across all staff groups because of coronavirus-related sickness over March, April and May. 

https://www.nursinginpractice.com/latest-news/covid-19-responsible-for-a-third-of-nurse-absences-in-april/

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