Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made arrangements to provide full Crown indemnity to (a) doctors and (b) nurses returning to clinical practice to assist during the covid-19 outbreak.

If doctors or nurses return to the National Health Service in England for the purposes of assisting with the COVID-19 outbreak and carry out work on behalf of an NHS trust or a general practitioner (GP) practice, they would be covered for clinical negligence indemnity via one of the following state indemnity schemes:

- The Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts, if they are engaged by an NHS trust to provide NHS services; and

- The Clinical Negligence Scheme for General Practice, if they are engaged by a GP practice to provide NHS services (i.e. a GP practice, the main business of which is the provision of primary medical services for the NHS).