APPCOG report launch – Prepare, Practice, Protect

1 August 2023
in General Information and Guidance

This Report sets out how health and social care workers can protect themselves and patients from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Policy Connect and the All-Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group latest report, ‘Prepare, Practice, Protect: Improving Carbon Monoxide Safety in Health and Care Services’, examines the extent to which frontline health and social care professionals (HSCPs) are aware of and protected from carbon monoxide, and sets out how improvements can be made in an effective, manageable, and practical way.

Findings show that awareness of carbon monoxide exposure is low, and many health care professionals are not aware of the correct actions to take once exposure is suspected. Furthermore, risk assessments were reported to take place in less than half of the circumstances when they should be mandated.

This comes at a critical time as households in fuel poverty are at an elevated risk of carbon monoxide exposure and more homes are falling into fuel poverty amid the energy and cost-of-living crises. The Gas Safe Register has found a high level (1 in 5) of faulty or dangerous gas appliances in homes in the UK, which could harm occupants by emitting carbon monoxide and other pollutants.

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