Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 103474 on Community Care: Coronavirus, when the pilot to test professionals who visit care homes is planned to end; and how that pilot will be assessed.
The pilot began on 26 October 2020 and is expected to last four weeks.
We are working with the pilot sites to gather learning and establish the most effective way of testing professionals who move in and out of care homes.
We will continue to review our social care testing strategy for adult social care in light of the latest evidence and testing capacity.