Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has issued on whether people displaying symptoms associated with the Ebola virus should attend accident and emergency departments.

People are ordinarily told to seek advice, provided that they are not suffering from a severe acute illness requiring immediate emergency care, by calling their Public Health England monitoring officer (if they are in the returning worker monitoring programme) or calling NHS 111. They may advise attendance at an Emergency Department for assessment (in such circumstance the Emergency Department concerned would have been pre-warned of the arrival of the patient to ensure that appropriate infection control measures are in place).