A NEW app allows frontline healthcare workers to request free PPE - and have it delivered within just 48 hours - to help ensure vital equipment gets to where it is needed.lets NHS staff anywhere in the UK to report protective equipment shortages anonymously through its web-based app.Frontline.Live works in partnership with charities, MedSupplyDrive UK, founded and run by doctors, and the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation, set up by NHS workers to deliver protective equipment.
Anonymous comments from the survey include,“We have run out of FFP3 masks already on our ward.” and “Masks that fit well enough to provide adequate protection are already running out.“Katz, CEO of AI software company Beep, said: “NHS staff might have reported that they need PPE but it may be three weeks until they actually get it, which is not good enough.Katz was inspired to set up the app in April last year after a conversation over zoom with a friend who is a nurse.
“There was a story about someone from an organisaton trying to source protective equipment for an NHS trust apparently asking a BBC reporter for the factory phone number of Burberry, which had turned over its production to make PPE for healthcare workers.” on the Frontline Live website or tweet their need using three hashtags: #FrontlineMap #postcode #PPEneed along with the postcode of the building or hospital they work in.The platform shows exactly where crucial equipment is neededThis then creates a live data map of what is needed and where and free PPE will be delivered to their building within two days.
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