Free PPE for PAs

The Government has promised to provide all social care and health workers with free Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) until March 2023.

A new PPE portal has been set up by Department of Health and Social Care to allow social care workers including PAs to access free PPE. If you (or your employer) are already registered with your Local Authority or Local Resilience Forum to receive PPE, they will contact you and get you registered on the new portal.

If you are not already registered, please find your local authority via this link: Personal protective equipment (PPE): local contacts for providers - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and follow the steps to get registered.

Some local authorities are continuing with their local arrangements as they have lots of stock of PPE. You can carry on receiving it in this way and don’t need to do anything else until advised otherwise.

The PPE portal has a customer services department that can be contacted by telephone if preferred. Telephone numbers are included on the link above for each area.