Changes to safety advice over the use of PPE by NHS staff in the face of shortages during the coronavirus outbreak has sparked a storm of protest
Chief executive Dame Donna Kinnair said:"Only sound scientific evidence or safety concerns should change the guidance.The RCN has previously told its members to refuse to treat patients as a"last resort" if adequate PPE cannot be provided.The shortage of PPE faced by frontline staff has been underlined by an NHS worker in an intensive care unit at a major COVID-19 trauma centre in London.
"If they're saying this is the standard we should be having in intensive care and then when it seems something becomes low they then say we don't actually need to be wearing that any more that then becomes very suspect.
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