There are many lessons that were learned from the Covid pandemic. One of them is the importance of providing personal protective equipment (PPE), with associated protocols, to guard medical staff from harm.
This should, obviously, be the case at all times. True, in a national emergency, it may prove more difficult to achieve. But there can be no excuse for NHS cancer nurses being exposed to toxic chemicals linked to miscarriage and infertility due to inadequate PPE, as The Independent reports on Thursday.
