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Frontline workers left "risking lives to provide treatment and care"

"The Department for Health and Social Care's decision to prioritise hospitals at the beginning of the pandemic meant social care providers were left exposed by lack of PPE, says the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee in its first report on PPE procurement published today."

"While government had plans and a stockpile of PPE, these proved inadequate for the COVID-19 pandemic."

Source: committees.parliament.uk

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