{"id":591,"date":"2020-12-07T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-guardian-doctors-step-up-drive-for-probe-into-ppe-and-covid-deaths-among-health-workers\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:35:00","slug":"dauk-in-the-guardian-doctors-step-up-drive-for-probe-into-ppe-and-covid-deaths-among-health-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauk-in-the-guardian-doctors-step-up-drive-for-probe-into-ppe-and-covid-deaths-among-health-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in the Guardian: Doctors step up drive for probe into PPE and Covid deaths among health workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cInquiries must be initiated to investigate any factors that may have led to healthcare workers\u2019 deaths. It is the next necessary step towards setting things right and preventing any more avoidable deaths.\u201d<\/p><cite>DAUK Spokesperson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/doctors\">Doctors<\/a>&nbsp;are stepping up a legal effort to force a public inquiry into Covid-19 deaths among NHS staff and care workers because of a lack of personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doctors Association UK (DAUK), an organisation that represents frontline medics, has escalated its threat of judicial review against the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 126 health and care workers died of Covid between April and October in cases where their employers believe they had contracted the virus as a result of their work,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/press-releases\/more-7000-health-worker-deaths-covid-19-globally-uk-deaths-third-highest\">official reports<\/a>&nbsp;to the Health and Safety Executive show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the first was Dr Peter Tun, who died on 13 April. He had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/apr\/23\/emails-reveal-doctors-plea-for-ppe-before-covid-19-death-dr-peter-tun\">warned Royal Berkshire hospital three weeks before his death<\/a>&nbsp;that unless it supplied the vital kit he and his colleagues needed to avoid infection \u201cit will be too little and too late\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK, the Good Law Project and Hourglass, a charity also known as Action on Elder Abuse, say they will pursue legal action against the government\u2019s \u201ccontinued refusal to hold a public inquiry into whether PPE failures contributed to the deaths or illness of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/nhs\">NHS<\/a>&nbsp;staff and care workers\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legal action had been paused while the National Audit Office (NAO) investigated the UK\u2019s PPE supply.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/report\/supplying-the-nhs-and-adult-social-care-sector-with-personal-protective-equipment-ppe\/\">Its November report<\/a>&nbsp;demanded \u201ca comprehensive lessons learned exercise\u201d to understand whether \u201cPPE provision or use might have contributed to Covid-19 infections or deaths\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A DAUK spokesperson said: \u201cInquiries must be initiated to investigate any factors that may have led to healthcare workers\u2019 deaths. It is the next necessary step towards setting things right and preventing any more avoidable deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the article can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/doctors-step-up-drive-for-probe-into-ppe-and-covid-deaths-among-health-workers\" class=\"rank-math-link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInquiries must be initiated to investigate any factors that may have led to healthcare workers\u2019 deaths. It is the next necessary step towards setting things&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,92,29,58],"tags":[196,38,32,33,34,42,114],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","category-learn-not-blame","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","tag-covidinquiry","tag-dauk","tag-ppe","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}