Open Letter to UK Government: “Do you want our PPE or not?”

This open letter from suppliers across the UK has been put together by Lucy Wathan — organiser of the campaign calling on the Government to urgently do more to get PPE on the ground for NHS frontline staff. Over 800,000 have signed her Change.org petition.

Dear Matt Hancock,

We are a group of businesses and individual suppliers from around the UK who are desperate to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to the NHS. Between us, we can produce masses of pieces of PPE.

Together, we can help save lives. But you’re making this impossible.

We’ve done what you asked us to do: we’ve contacted the Government through the official procurement process you set out. None of us has had a definitive response. We don’t know when we can expect one.

With every passing day that you don’t respond, people are dying. Every day that we are left waiting, there are health workers, care workers, cleaners, supermarket staff, volunteers and delivery staff left exposed to coronavirus. Our PPE can help protect them.

We can’t keep waiting. So if you don’t want our PPE, you need to tell us now.

Tell us you want us, so that we can spring into action and help get millions of pieces of PPE into the NHS. Or tell us you don’t, so we can organise ourselves to deliver our PPE directly to the thousands of people across the UK who are pleading with us for it.

We have the support of 800,000 people who have signed a petition for the Government to act faster in providing PPE to the NHS. Do we have your support too?

Signatories

Flavio Amorelli, Livoos ltd — London
1 to 8 million masks and other PPE material

Lisa ONeill, Chloe Lily Ltd — Essex
Surgical masks , stock and can produce 50k per day
KN95 masks, stock and can produce 50k per day
Isolation gowns, stock and can produce 50k per day
Surgical gowns, stock and can produce 20k per day
Coveralls, can produce 20k per day
Overboots, can produce 30k per day

Safepol Workwear — London
Could supply 10,000 disposable gowns per week /100,000 surgical masks

Oya Mutlu, Mumotex International Limited- Bradford-On-Avon/Wiltshire
Face Masks Making Machines, Face Mask Materials
CE marked, FDA approved

Andrew Gaule, RufusMasks.com- Buckingham
7,000 -10,000 face masks per week.

Khalid Khames, Arming Limited — Scotland
Reusable full face respirators — available immediately

Gemma Campbell, Dynasty Laser Designs — Willenhall
Able to produce face shields with prior notice

Jane Gibbons, Ultimaker — Chorley
Can supply 3D printers and 3D printed parts directly to hospitals or via a network of our customers

Abiola Dawodu, Scissorhands Couture — Essex
Visor face shield with attached Fabric mask; 5000 pieces a week
Fabric washable face mask: 5000 Pieces a week

Craig Morris, Liquid retail Nottinghamshire
All items government approved export grade medical supplies with full CE certification and documentation:
IIR face masks — circa 1million pieces per day per one facility. Multiple facilities.
N95 FFP2 face masks — 500k-1 million per week per one facility. Multiple facilities.
FFP3 — very limited volume
FFP3 — Millions. Volume non-medical certification but FFP3 tested. Need checks and certification assistance from the government.
Gowns — one factory 500k per week. Multiple facilities.
Gloves — millions per week.
Visors — hundreds of thousands.
Goggles — tens of thousand.
Aprons — millions.

Ian Jamie, Staeger Clear Packaging Limited — Coventry
Visors (standard and deluxe — all made from recycled water bottles). Currently 200,000 a week, could produce 750,000 to 1,000,000 week

Georgina Ayoola, Wavelength Consultancy Solution Grays — United Kingdom
Can produce more than 5,000 Face Masks a week
1000 Face shields a week.

Nick Flynn, Highbury Design — Nottingham
Face masks: initially 5,000. Could produce tens of thousands if ordered, within 2 months approx 1 million.

Bella Gonshorovitz — London
Initially 1000 gowns per week then could scale up.

Jatin Patel, Kalikas Armour — Kent
Minimum capabilities 1000+ Face masks

Ben Roots, Surrey Site Supplies Ltd — Surrey & London
Can supply wide range of PPE inc. disposable gloves, disposable gowns, N95 face masks, all items have certs, data sheets and test reports