Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS employees working in non-clinical settings are able to work from home where operationally possible.

Individual National Health Service organisations, as employers, will be working on how they can support non-clinical staff to work at home wherever possible, in line with their Business Continuity Plans and Government recommendations.

NHS Employers is publishing HR guidance on this area, which states that staff who are self-isolating but are otherwise well enough to work should agree with their line manager whether working from home is a possibility. Line managers should consider the work that it is possible to do remotely, and organisations should consider developing/updating their local homeworking policies.