From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

This is based on a snapshot figure from a year ago, and doesn’t include gloves which make up around 45% of the UK’s PPE demand. Thanks to the efforts of people across Whitehall, this country is now ...

A high-profile shipment to the UK of surgical gowns, hailed by ministers as a solution to Britain’s personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages, has ended with little of the expected fanfare – with ...

UK Covid Waste: The UK decided to get rid of the stock as it was costing too much to store it as last year the country spent $28.1 million (£23 million) on storage. About 64.4 million surgical face ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Sir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), said that the UK is currently holding around 12.6 billion items of PPE such as masks, gloves and aprons. He ...

THE amount of public money wasted on PPE during the pandemic was enough to save every household in the UK more than £310, new figures show. In February the Government admitted it had blown an ...

Unused personal protective equipment bought for hundreds of thousands of pounds is being auctioned off by the Government for as little as £250. Millions of surplus aprons, visors, hand sanitisers and ...

The government has been unable to say how much personal protective equipment is still lacking in the fight against coronavirus, as the number of NHS staff confirmed to have died of the illness ...

A mountain of PPE which was dumped near a nature reserve has finally been cleared away. Healthcare workers were among those left furious after piles of boxes containing aprons and face masks were left ...

Britain’s Conservative government wasted billions of pounds buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that was not fit for purpose. The amount wasted—almost £9 billion—could easily have provided over ...

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen more and more people admitted to hospital, where the high infection rate of the virus makes use of personal protection equipment (PPE) vital for ...