PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - John P Thomas AU - Anand Srinivasan AU - Chandu S Wickramarachchi AU - Parveen K Dhesi AU - Yat MA Hung AU - Ajay V Kamath TI - Evaluating the national PPE guidance for NHS healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic AID - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0143 DP - 2020 May 01 TA - Clinical Medicine PG - 242--247 VI - 20 IP - 3 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/3/242.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/3/242.full SO - Clin Med2020 May 01; 20 AB - Tragically, many of the infections and deaths recorded in the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have occurred in healthcare workers. Some have attributed this to inadequate provision of personal protective equipment (PPE). In the UK, several organisations have voiced their concerns that the national PPE guidance issued by Public Health England is inadequate. Despite recent revisions to these guidelines, concerns remain that they offer insufficient protection to frontline NHS healthcare workers. In this report, we evaluate whether these concerns are merited, through critical appraisal of the available evidence, review of international PPE guidance, and consideration of the ethical implications.