Home Care Services: Coronavirus

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

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 15 December 2020 to Question 123626, what the Government's timescale is for (a) concluding their learnings from the Visiting Professionals pilot and (b) providing an approach for the regular covid-19 testing of adult social care staff providing essential in-person rehabilitation.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 28th January 2021

We recognise the need to ensure professionals are able to visit care homes safely. Our Visiting Professionals pilot ended in November 2020.

We provided further guidance on 14 December for professionals, such as adult social care staff providing essential in-person rehabilitation in care homes, who are not covered by an existing testing regime, to be tested using lateral flow devices at the care home door.

There is regular testing of National Health Service staff, some of whom may be visiting care homes. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/asymptomatic-staff-testing-for-covid-19/

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