NHS frontline coronavirus medics forced to ‘cut up plastic curtains to make protective gown’ due to PPE shortage

It read: "No immediate stocks of gowns due in national supply chain in the next few days. We are unsighted on when deliveries will be."

One anonymous doctor at King's College Hospital in South London told the Mirror they were cutting staff levels on the ICU ward as "there simply aren't enough PPE" to protet staff tackling the coronavirus.

He told BBC Breakfast on Saturday it was important healthcare workers use the "right amount" of PPE.

"I am not impugning anyone who works for the NHS and I think they do an amazing job," said Mr Hancock.

"But what I am reiterating, stressing, is the importance to use the right amount of PPE both to have enough and also to use it as the precious resource that it is."

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) was quick to dismiss any suggestions that healthcare staff were "abusing or overusing" PPE.

RCN general secretary Dame Donna said: "I take offence actually that we are saying that healthcare workers are abusing or overusing PPE".
Aimée Goold, from East Retford, Notts, described working at UK’s covid-19 frontline as going “through hell” in an emotional Facebook post.

She shared a shocking picture of her face covered in PPE sores and urged people to stay at home and follow the Government's advice.

Three nurses who were forced to wear bin liners due to a lack of PPE have all since reportedly tested positive for Covid-19.

The heroic trio were snapped wearing the makeshift hazmat suits made of bright blue bags at Northwick Park Hospital in North West London last month.

The news comes as Holby City soap donated ventilators from the set of the series to the NHS.