Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE2071 · Session 6

Take action to protect people from airborne infections in health and social care settings

Closed Submitted 9 Oct 2023
Signatures
949
Comments
0
Considered
3 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

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.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 17 Apr 2024
    1 mention
  2. 5 Mar 2025
    2 mentions
  3. 14 Jan 2026
    1 mention

Signatures by country

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Comments

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