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PPE might not last the weekend
MPs react with shock as Health Secretary refuses to guarantee vital equipment will be on the front line
Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks via videolink at the opening of the NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham, in the National Exhibition Centre, yesterday
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock today repeatedly refused to guarantee that NHS and social care staff would have enough personal protective equipment (PPE) this weekend.
Mr Hancock was grilled online by MPs, including his predecessor Jeremy Hunt, as part of the Commons health committee’s scrutiny of the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Committee chairman Mr Hunt had a controversial tenure as health secretary, overseeing underfunding and part-privatisation of the NHS, as well as two junior doctors’ strikes in one week.
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