Care Homes: Coronavirus

(asked on 1st June 2020) - 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 eligibility for covid-19 testing to be available to (a) staff and (b) patients of care facilities that are not Care Quality Commission registered settings.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 19th August 2020

We will shortly be writing to Directors of Public Health to ask them to help us determine which Extra Care and Supported Living adult social care settings, including those that may not be Care Quality Commission registered, meet certain risk-based criteria and therefore should be eligible for initial round of asymptomatic testing.

All care workers with symptoms should be self-isolating and can access testing through the self-referral or employer-referral portal. Our approach to testing asymptomatic care staff is based on evidence regarding prevalence and risks and clinical guidance, rather than a blanket approach.

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