Personal protective equipment and Covid-19: a risk to healthcare staff? (April 2020)

Summary

This article, published by the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, concludes that in order for healthcare professionals to deliver safe care they need adequate protection and training in its use. Where employers are failing to provide adequate PPE safe healthcare cannot be delivered. This poses both moral and ethical dilemmas to healthcare professionals who are patient focused, thereby creating a sense of inadequacy and undervaluation resulting in workforce stress.