Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on NHS services which must be available on a 24 hour basis and which are dependent on a small number of specialist staff, including those working in transfusion services, of the requirement to quarantine for a 14 day period under the COVID-19 track and trace policy; and what steps they are taking to introduce a COVID-19 testing process for any such staff to reduce the time they spend quarantined. [T]
To provide a more comprehensive response to a number of outstanding Written Questions, this has been answered by an information factsheet Testing – note for House of Lords which is attached, due to the size of the data. A copy has also been placed in the Library