Flanked by the White Cliffs of Dover, the lorries roared into Britain, laden with the latest Mail Force protective equipment for our healthcare workers. Their arrival marked the end of a 2,000-mile, week-long journey across the continent from Turkey. In their cargo were 100,000 gowns bought by the Mail Force charity to help solve the … Read more
The Health Service was there for them in their hour of need. Now more Mail readers than ever have pledged to support our hardworking doctors and nurses with generous donations to Mail Force. Already more than 44,000 of you have donated to the charity – backed by the Mail – which is leading a campaign … Read more
It’s just lovely! Care home veteran salutes Mail Force: Delivery of vital PPE will help keep ex-submariner Harry, 100, safe Harry Melling, 100, is Britain’s oldest surviving Second World War submariner His Alexandra Grange care home in Wigan received the aprons and coveralls Manager Christine Stafford saluted the Mail Force charity delivery of vital PPE By … Read more
There is no end in sight to the serious global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). But resourceful British engineers and entrepreneurs are finding that there is one part of the PPE armoury that can be created in the UK cheaply and relatively easily – the visor, or face shield. And now Mail Force, the … Read more
More than one in three nurses are caring for coronavirus patients with inadequate PPE, survey reveals amid fears ‘chaos’ at warehouse could have delayed £400m of kit getting to frontline Drivers raise questions over Movianto’s ability to manage deliveries of PPE ‘It became more chaotic as time went on,’ says former policeman Asif Hussain British … Read more
This was the magnificent sight yesterday as one million protective aprons were delivered to the NHS. Less than 24 hours after being made, the crucial Mail Force Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was handed over. Box after box of aprons were unloaded at a depot in the Midlands which is the nerve centre of the NHS’s … Read more
Panorama’s PPE probe sparks almost 800 complaints of Labour bias after it emerged a string of medical workers who took part in the show were also Left-wing activists A number of doctors and nurses interviewed were supporters of Labour Party Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden wrote to BBC director general with concerns Has The Government Failed … Read more
Early yesterday morning, they were just a drum of white granules on a lorry from Grangemouth. Hours later, they had been heated, rolled, pressed, stamped, cut in to medical aprons, folded and boxed at a factory in Blackburn before delivery to a warehouse in Preston. By this morning, they should be on their way to … Read more
Health bosses today slammed the government for ‘breaking promises’ to frontline workers over the supply of PPE after it emerged a shipment of 400,000 gowns from Turkey has been found to be useless. The Turkish gowns were ordered last month amid great fanfare from ministers but the delivery descended into farce after arrival was delayed … Read more
The 400,000 gowns ordered by the government from Turkey last month are sitting in a warehouse near Heathrow Airport after inspectors discovered they were ‘useless’ and fell short of UK standards, it has emerged. The shipment was announced by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick on April 18 to much fanfare, with the minster claiming that 84 … Read more