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The heads of seven of Britain’s health and social care unions have warned ministers that the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and social care workers faced with tackling Covid-19 is a “crisis within a crisis”.

In a joint statement signed by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), British Dietetic Association (BDA), UNISON, the GMB, Unite and the TUC, they have called on the government to urgently increase the supply of personal protective equipment to staff in the NHS and social care.

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