About one in ten of the items of PPE that the government ordered cannot be used in a clinical settingThe government bought almost three billion items of PPE that are not fit to be used in the NHS, officials admitted yesterday. Giving evidence to MP,s the most senior official in the Department of Health and Social Care said that about one in ten of all protective equipment in storage was not of a high enough quality to be used in a clinical setting. SponsoredSir Chris Wormald, the department’s permanent secretary, said the estimated cost to the taxpayer of the items was about £1.5 billion. A further 230 million items have been judged to be of no use in any setting and will need to be disposed of. However, Wormald said he hoped that the bulk of the three billion items would be able to

Source: The Times June 10, 2021 15:56 UTC