{"id":926,"date":"2022-01-02T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dr-lizzie-toberty-dauks-gp-lead-in-pulse-gps-buying-own-ppe-to-ward-off-omicron\/"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:25:40","slug":"dr-lizzie-toberty-dauks-gp-lead-in-pulse-gps-buying-own-ppe-to-ward-off-omicron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dr-lizzie-toberty-dauks-gp-lead-in-pulse-gps-buying-own-ppe-to-ward-off-omicron\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Lizzie Toberty, DAUK&#8217;s GP Lead in Pulse: &#8220;GPs buying own PPE to ward off Omicron&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ac7a3105-0d75-4b13-9398-c4d233762e52-493x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5819\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulsetoday.co.uk\/news\/clinical-areas\/respiratory\/gps-buying-own-enhanced-ppe-to-ward-off-omicron-wave\/\">Pulse<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GPs have told Pulse of buying their own higher grade PPE to protect staff as the new Omicron Covid variant is sweeping over the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current infection prevention and control (IPC) Government&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control\/covid-19-guidance-for-maintaining-services-within-health-and-care-settings-infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations\">guidance<\/a>&nbsp;recommends \u2018face coverings or surgical masks (Type II or IIR) to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory infectious agents in health and care settings\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Lizzie Toberty, North East GP and Doctors Association GP lead, told Pulse: \u2018Two years into the pandemic, we should definitely have better PPE\u2026. And surely health and safety laws would say that there is a responsibility on the NHS to provide adequate steps to keep us safe. And I don\u2019t think that that\u2019s there at the moment.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said: \u2018It shows a disdain for staff, that in the same week Boris Johnson sent out a letter thanking us, we\u2019re not being provided with the basics to enable us to look after our own health and therefore look after our patients.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also said it should be done centrally \u2018from a practical perspective\u2019, as she struggled to know which FFP3 mask was the right one when looking for herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article in Pulse GPs have told Pulse of buying their own higher grade PPE to protect staff as the new Omicron Covid&hellip;<\/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":[44,38,557,39,302,62,32,33,34,35,153,42],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protect-the-frontline","tag-covid-19","tag-dauk","tag-dauk-gp","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-dr-elizabeth-toberty","tag-gp","tag-ppe","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-protect-the-frontline","tag-pulse","tag-the-doctors-association-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}