To: The chief coroner for England and Wales, Mark Lucraft QC
You can do more than clap.
Instruct coroners to consider whether the shortage of PPE equipment provided to health workers who have died from coronavirus has contributed to their deaths.
Why is this important?
Clapping is not enough.
So far, at least 100 health workers have contracted coronavirus and died and it is highly likely that more will in the future.
Hundreds of people have lost mums and dads, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, partners and friends. Perhaps you have.
The chief coroner has instructed coroners that they should not consider shortages in the supply of PPE in their inquests despite overwhelming anecdotal evidence that a shortage exists and that health workers have been dying as a consequence of it.
Our health workers deserve our support. They face infection and potential death daily when they look after our families. They are there with the people that we care about when we can't be.
If it matters to you that we listen to their concerns, that they are treated fairly and with respect, and that we keep them as safe as is possible in these extremely difficult and challenging circumstances then please sign this petition.
