Care Homes: Coronavirus
(asked on 8th 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 the criteria are on care home prioritisation for covid-19 home testing kits.
This question was answered on 17th September 2020
In June, the following criteria were assessed in order to prioritise sending test kits:
- care homes referred to us by Public Health England because they have had a new outbreak;
- care homes for older people and those with Dementia that have over 50 beds, then those with 25-50 beds; and
- all other care homes.