Hospitals: Visits

(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people visiting (a) friends or (b) relatives in hospitals after 1 April 2022 will be entitled to free covid-19 lateral flow testing.


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 general public in England will end. There will be limited testing available to a number of at-risk groups. Further details on eligible groups will be made available in due course.

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