Care Homes: General Practitioners

(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 GPs who do not show symptoms of covid-19 and who regularly visit care homes.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st September 2020

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.

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