Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans for covid-19 antibody testing to be made available to NHS employees working in the dental profession.

Since the end of May 2020, laboratory-based antibody tests were available to all NHS staff, with patients and care residents eligible at their clinician’s request.

This included staff working on NHS premises but not directly employed by the NHS, those working for the NHS but not on NHS premises and those in primary, community, and mental health care including community pharmacists, dentists and dental staff.