PE2071 : Take action to protect people from airborne infections in health and social care settings
Petition Summary
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to:
- improve air quality in health and social care settings through addressing ventilation, air filtration and sterilisation;
- reintroduce routine mask-wearing in those settings, particularly respiratory masks;
- reintroduce routine Covid testing;
- ensure staff manuals fully cover preventing airborne infection;
- support ill staff to stay home;
- provide public health information on the use of respiratory masks and the HEPA air filtration against airborne infections.
Petitioner: Sally Witcher
Status: Under consideration
Date published: 06 December 2023
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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee Consideration
SPICe Briefing (135KB, pdf) posted 27 March 2024
Committee Meetings
17 April 2024: The Committee agreed to write to the Scottish Government, the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians, Scottish Care, ALLIANCE Scotland and the Care Inspectorate.
Official Report of Meeting 17 April 2024
Written Submissions
PE2071/A: Scottish Government submission of 15 January 2024 (134KB, pdf) posted 24 January 2024
PE2071/B: Petitioner submission of 13 February 2024 (640KB, pdf) posted 26 February 2024
PE2071/C: Care Inspectorate submission of 11 March 2024 (77KB, pdf) posted 25 March 2024
PE2071/D: Petitioner submission, 5 April 2024 (121KB, pdf) posted 10 April 2024