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Health secretary slammed as 'insulting' after saying health workers should treat PPE as 'precious resource'

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Minister have come under fire for saying personal protective equipment (PPE) should be treated as a 'precious resource' amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Dame Donna Kinnair, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said any suggestion that health workers were 'abusing or overusing' PPE was offensive.

It comes after health secretary Matt Hancock said it was important that NHS workers used 'the right amount of PPE' and treat it as 'precious resource'.

Dame Donna hit back at his comments saying that no PPE was “more precious a resource than a healthcare worker’s life, a nurse’s life, a doctor’s life”.

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