Lack of PPE is a world wide problem. That problem is made worse in the UK because of the lack of planning and political disruption to NHS infrastructure. See

Lack of PPE is a world wide problem. That problem is made worse in the UK because of the lack of planning and political disruption to NHS infrastructure. See for example the fucking shambles of Movianto[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/coronavirus-uk-privately-run-ppe-stockpile-chaos-movianto https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/coronavirus-uk... We used to have NHS Logistics Authority, which changed to NHS Logistics, which was sold off to DHL Supply Chain (but managed by NHS Business Services Authority) and that was a disaster so we now have NHS Supply Chain. This waxing and waning of ideology (centralised control vs localism; NHS provision vs private provision) causes huge amounts of waste and harm in the NHS. It's also not as simple as tories=bad, labour=good. Selling it off to DHL happened under a Labour government; bringing it back under NHS Supply Chain happened under a Conservative government.