{"id":401,"date":"2020-05-09T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-5-12-telegraphdoctorsveryworriedaboutppe\/"},"modified":"2020-05-09T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T22:00:00","slug":"2020-5-12-telegraphdoctorsveryworriedaboutppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-5-12-telegraphdoctorsveryworriedaboutppe\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in The Telegraph: healthcare workers are very worried about lack of PPE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Healthcare workers are \u201cvery scared\u201d about lack of PPE, a leading leading member of the Doctors&#8217; Association UK has stressed as she called for a public inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are worried,\u201d said Dr Jenny Vaughan. \u201cAnd what we&#8217;re hoping is that the government will get a grip of this situation and that they will get hold of more gowns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Alison Pittard, from the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said not enough testing had gone into the washing and re-using of PPE and \u201cyou have to err on the side of caution\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She added: \u201cIf there are any signs that it is degraded in any way when it has been washed then it shouldn&#8217;t be used because that would put us at unnecessary risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK speaks to The Telegraph about our concerns regarding lack of PPE. Dr Jenny Vaughan, our Law and Policy Officer, calls for a public inquiry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[38,39,40,41,33,34,42,43],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-dauk","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-jenny-vaughan","tag-jenny-vaughan","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}