Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether specific guidance will be mailed directly to people who are severely immunocompromised on how to manage their risk from covid-19 beyond 1 April 2022.
On 4 April 2022, updated guidance for people whose immune system means they are at higher risk of serious illness if they become infected with COVID-19 was published at the following link:
Immunocompromised individuals who are eligible to receive COVID-19 treatments will receive a letter from NHS England offering advice should they become symptomatic, which is available at the following link:
The letter also includes information on accessing free lateral flow device tests and should they test positive, how to contact a Covid Medicines Delivery Unit in and out of general practitioner surgery hours.