I have been trying to source handwash and wipes for the MiL's McArthy & Stone place. I approached some of the medical distributors to see if I could get a small _volume_ for the forthcoming lockdown and all three I got through to said that all product they have coming in has been hi-jacked by the NHS for various places (ambulance, local surgery, visiting midwives etc) and they have been asked to go through their suppliers root and branch for anything hiding in a corner of a stock room.
One good use of the governments money would be to go directly to the production companies and pay them to ramp up like monsters and sort out their needs. Put the Army Logistics behind them and use this war footing discussion being swallowed up by the press.
