A former Army surgeon who helped source medical equipment in the pandemic suggests how the UK could protect its supplies of ...

When approached for comment by Express.co.uk, the MoD reiterated that the military has helped to deliver over 1.18 billion PPE products, including 158m masks, 184m aprons, 2.3m gowns and 689m ...

The UK will stockpile military medical supplies to prepare for a possible nuclear attack under plans to ramp up its defences. Medicines and healthcare equipment designed to treat Armed Forces ...

Military personnel have also played a key role in the delivery of more than 1.18 billion items of PPE to the NHS across ... ambulance services across the UK and a new Aviation Task Force has ...

British Army soldiers today tried on Hazmat suits ... Service personnel were learning how to use Personal Protective Equipment during training with the North Wales Ambulance Service.

It added that the army would offer personnel to “help manage and offload supplies in busy NHS settings” and distribute PPE supplies to ... 281 people had died in the UK after testing positive ...

Insiders working for Movianto, the company in charge of the UK’s strategic ... and in March this year, the army was brought in to try to speed up distribution of PPE to hospitals.

The [Cabinet Office] team don’t know what the NHS are doing and the army — brought ... of directly sourcing PPE overseas, and was accustomed to securing it through UK-based intermediaries ...

A new distribution system was therefore introduced by the government, with logistical support from the army ... able to get enough PPE to meet the growing demand. The UK already had a stockpile ...

The government-awarded contracts in question were provided by the UK government within the “VIP lane” operation for suppliers of PPE during the pandemic, prioritizing companies with political ...