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 GPs who do not show symptoms of covid-19 and who regularly visit care homes.
Essential workers (such as general practitioners) with symptoms of COVID-19 can access testing via the GOV.UK website. As set out in the ‘Third phase of NHS response to COVID-19’ letter if background infection risk increases in the autumn, and NHS Test and Trace secures 500,000+ tests per day, the Chief Medical Officer and the Department may decide in September or October to implement a policy of regular routine COVID-19 testing of all asymptomatic staff across the National Health Service.