Missing personal protection equipment (PPE) valued at £1.4 billion storage inappropriately’
Since the provider of unused personal protection equipment in the UK stored it in shipping containers for months,it has gone bad.
The BBC found that £1.4 billion of aprons, masks, and goggles were discarded, reused, or destroyed. In addition to being completely compliant, these things arrived in satisfactory shape.
the epidemic was underway, the £1.8 billion arrangement and the Department of Health and Social Care was the least efficient.
The DHSC, which purchased and distributed PPE, questioned the £1.4 billion figure and said recycling had recouped some of it.
“Shipper received it.”
Sarah Stoute established Full Support Healthcare in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. The firm has extensive expertise in supplying the National Health Service (NHS) with personal protective equipment (PPE).
Hospital PPE demand skyrocketed in early 2020, prompting the company to place orders for large quantities of Chinese stock and account for 13% of the DHSC’s overall expenditure on COVID-19 PPE.
Supply Chain Co-ordination Ltd (SCCL), the government’s PPE procurement partner, delivered two billion pieces. However, data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that care settings will never use 85 percent of those goods. The equipment’s disposal mentioned a method of producing energy from waste.
The containers were then relocated to various locations around Suffolk, as depicted in social media images. These included the Ipswich ports, Mendlesham Airfield, and ground adjacent to Melton railway station.
Full Support Healthcare’s PPE’s storage location is unknown, but the public was expected to pay over £100 million more.
CCL found 825 million “excess to forecast requirements” goods kept in areas where disposal or recycling was possible.
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins rejected the BBC’s conclusions about the squandered inventory without offering a reason.
“That was absolutely the right thing to do at the time,” according to her.
The deal’s handling was characterized by “staggering incompetence” by shadow health secretary Wes Streeting.
Liberal Democrats stated that the people “deserved transparency on the true cost of these failures.”
“The volume of product would have been known in advance of shipping to the UK” and “the government and SCCL should have had a clear plan of where and how they were going to be stored,” according to Peter Upcott of consultancy firm PPE Specialist.
Last July, in the New Forest, authorities discovered an illicit waste of medical aprons that had been properly supplied by Full Support Healthcare.
According to documents obtained by the BBC, the DHSC auctioned off the inventory of around 1,550 pallets to an unaffiliated private company.
The Environmental Protection Agency took enforcement action to have it cleared because they believed it posed a fire risk.
The stockpiling was completely unrelated to Full Support.
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