I spoke with a nurse yesterday - her ICU is overflowing with PPE. The issue doesn’t seem to be one of procurement but logistics and distribution. In unprecedented times, it happens, but that doesn’t mean government has failed. Let’s stop flapping and let’s restore some sanity. https://twitter.com/rockboltg/status/1249001093826260992

And those functions are the preserve and responsibility of the scores of procurement managers scattered around the zillions of trusts. This is why the military has been bought in. The NHS is having to operate to a centralised distribution proposition and it’s struggling.

The cretin asking a question for @itvnews underscores just how malignant our news media is. That uninformed hack asking if Priti Patel should “apologise” (what for??!!) exemplifies how much easier our lives would be if a) they did their job properly, or b) didn’t bother at all.