Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason results from (a) NHS hospitals and (b) Public Health England laboratories cannot be entered onto the NHS covid-19 app.

If a person books a test via the National Health Service COVID-19 app then the result will be automatically recorded in the app. If a person reports symptoms via the app but then chooses to book a test via the official testing website without going via the app, they can log both a positive and a negative test result on the app with the code that will be provided by email or SMS.

If a person has a test in a NHS hospital or as part of surveillance study, it should also be possible to log a positive test result on the app but it will not currently be possible to log a negative result.