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Scots health chiefs raised concerns about PPE stock levels before pandemic began

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coronavirus spread throughout the country, new emails have shown. Staff at NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) knew a large number of their FFP3 masks for pandemic supplies were out of date just as the first cases were confirmed.

The internal messages suggest the Scottish Government was aware of this issue "for a long time". The discussions were revealed in a Freedom of Information request by the Press and Journal newspaper.On January 31, the day the first Covid-19 cases were confirmed in Scotland, NSS procurement director Gordon Beattie wrote: "SG aware of out of stock products for a long time as we've been asking to write off."His colleague Jim Miller said he felt the numbers of masks - 37,800 - "feels quite low".

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