the first report this evening comes from hugh penn.irmingham's new temporary hospital has progressed so fast it's ready to take patients today. that was the message from local health leaders at the latest nightingale hospital for coronavirus cases based at the national exhibition centre. it will be well—equipped, but it comes at a time when some health staff elsewhere are worried about their safety. they say they're still not able to get the right personal protective equipment and some feel anxious what they do get is not adequate. we're getting a lot of messages from doctors on the front line that the current situation is, in many parts of the country, inadequate, that people are feeling unprotected, that they feel scared when they're a work, they feel unable, in some places, to use the kit that they're able to bring in from home because other members of the team haven't got it, and that they don't feel confident in what's being provided. staff at newcastle—upon—tyne hospitals trust say they've had confusing messages. one e—mail this

if we now go to questions, the first question we have is from hugh penn bbc. thank you very much.id repeatedly in recent weeks that you have plans to get protective equipment to the nhs and social care, health and care workers are saying to us that they are still struggling in some cases of getting that a claimant. they feel unsafe. are you now acknowledging that previous plans were not enough? thanks, what i am acknowledging is that this is an enormous challenge, a herculean which is sickle effort. we have so far delivered 742 million pieces of protective equipment. but it isa pieces of protective equipment. but it is a task that needs constant effort because of the 1.4 million people who work in the nhs and the over 2 million people who work in social care using ppe has gone from something that happens in a relatively small way to right across the board. in the critical thing is that people use ppe like the precious resource that it is and that we get the ppe to them so that they can always have what is clinically needed. now, of course i listened to the concerns that are raised

we will take questions from the media i think hugh penn from the bbc is first up.have heard some harrowing stories of people dying alone because family cannot be with them for understandable reasons to do with the virus risk and what do you say to the british public about how things will develop from here? the first thing i will say is thank you for all you're doing, notjust the key workers as essential as they are and we applaud them for the incredible work they have done, but also to every individual who has followed the advice and the guidance, but we have made progress, patrick said that out very clearly, we don't know the conclusively that we don't know the conclusively that we are beyond the point at which we can we are beyond the point at which we ca n start we are beyond the point at which we can start considering the measures to be relaxed, so we must keep it up andi to be relaxed, so we must keep it up and i think the key thing is for people to understand how much of what they have artie done has helped contribute to avoiding an even worse situation in te