DAUK in Pulse
The Doctors' Association UK is calling for there to be a coroner's inquest into each and every death of a healthcare worker to Covid-19, looking at factors including PPE.
The Doctors' Association UK is calling for there to be a coroner's inquest into each and every death of a healthcare worker to Covid-19, looking at factors including PPE.
Dr Katie Sanderson, from DAUK, spoke to BBC News about how the lack of transparency around available PPE is affecting healthcare workers.
DAUK calls for a public inquiry into the government’s failure to provide PPE in addition to coroner’s inquests into each healthcare worker death as it is revealed that PPE supplies are stuck in Turkey.
Dr Katie Sanderson in a BBC interview this morning called for candour about PPE and the reasons behind changes in guidance. She also outlined 3 other issues for frontline staff that need the Government's reassurance.
“There has been a lot of language around heroes. People don’t want to be referred to as heroes. They want to do this work, we want to do it, it is what we have chosen to do with our lives. Candour, openness, and honesty about the problems facing us at the moment is what we deserve and what people want.” Dr Katie Sanderson, BBC World Service
As hospitals run out of personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare staff fighting the covid-19 pandemic, doctors report that trusts and NHS England are clamping down on their attempts to go public about the situation in mainstream news outlets or on social media.
DAUK makes the case for Coroner’s inquests into every healthcare worker death from COVID-19.