After using Facetime to talk to her mum who’s in a care home, Jacqui Barrett had the bright idea to donate free tablets to patients in isolation, to help them stay in touch with loved ones.

Amid the global pandemic, various fashion houses such as Barbour, Mulberry and Scottish fabric specialist Don & Low have been turning their hand to making hospital gowns and scrubs for frontline NHS workers. And now John Lewis is to reopen its Lancashire-based textiles factory to produce desperately needed PPE.

The Royal Mint is manufacturing thousands of medical visors for use by frontline NHS staff in the war against COVID-19.