Care Quality Commission: Care Homes
(asked on 4th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the testing of Care Quality Commission inspectors who do not show symptoms of covid-19 and who visit care homes.
This question was answered on 14th September 2020
There are no current plans to make Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors eligible for regular asymptomatic testing.
Our testing policy is based on clinical advice on relative priorities and available testing capacity and our testing policies continue to be reviewed on an ongoing basis.