Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of enabling access for people with health anxiety to free covid-19 lateral flow testing beyond April 2022.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 23rd March 2022

From 1 April 2022, free universal access to lateral flow device tests for the public in England will end. We will continue to make testing available for a small number of at-risk groups. Further details on eligible groups will be available in due course. We continue to keep the impact of COVID-19 policies under review, including on those with health anxiety.

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