My relative is quite high up in a business where supplying PPE was around 5/10% of his business.

You'll be unsurprised to learn that its far greater than that currently.

I had a conversation with him late last week.

He is receiving dozens of calls and emails daily direct from Hospitals and council chiefs, nurses, doctors, care workers private and public asking him to source varying PPE.

His supply line is limited and the manufacturers are rationing PPE delivery to each supplier and spreading it about as best they can.

Only last Thursday a head of a department in the local council enquired about obtaining Body Bags, and if he couldnt could he try and look for alternate equipment that will do the job (meeting certain standards to avoid contamination issues).



Some may be alright, some aren't

The government’s sudden interest in looking after care workers is as a result of the bad press they are receiving. They are once again being reactive and even then they are only offering tests if needed not to all. They I believe have like all sectors closest to the virus tested 1000 care workers out of roughly 300,000.

The longer this goes on the government’s failures will continue to be highlighted be it testing or lack of PPE.

The Government have done the right thing i.e. prioritise the NHS - they would have been slaughtered if they hadn't - care homes are private businesses that charge £20-30k a patient a year - surely it is their responsibility to provide their staff with the appropriate PPE?

What is the average annual charge for a resident £20-30k - so how you can even consider looking at deflecting blame for your employees not having the correct PPE is typical of you and your politics.



Testing has been a major issue that the government has failed miserably to implement.

What the f**k are you talking about?







Correct - and it remains so - and will look even worse when they utterly fail to get anywhere near Boris Johnson's solemn promise of 100k tests per day, the deadline for which was in 2 weeks time.

For accuracy Johnson failed promise was 25,000 tests by now it was Hancock who said 100,000 by the end of April. What proves the government failure on testing is that currently they have a capacity to perform 19,000 a day but are only utilising 14,500 they can’t even do enough to fill the woeful limit they have.

It's all ok now - my 1800 front line workers are getting a badge!

Will that be inside their wage packet, including tangible bonus ?

You could of been protecting your staff so much sooner because the badge was first made available last year. This is clearly a dereliction of the duty of care on your part.

We've put all our front line staff pay rates up by 20% for the duration of the pandemic - but I'm sure the badge will overshadow that.

If you think Boris and The Tories are doing a great job of running the country, a 99 year old man shouldn’t have to be raising funds for the NHS.

He isn't.