Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how (a) Community Response Volunteers will work with existing community groups, (b) information on that scheme will be shared locally and (c) volunteers will be matched up with people in need; and if he will make a statement.
We have launched the National Health Service Volunteer Responders programme to support the health and social care sectors to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The programme was developed to compliment local level volunteering activity and we have worked with local authorities and the voluntary and charity sector, as well as those shielding, to make them aware of the programme and how people can be referred to it.
NHS Volunteer Responders are matched up with those who need their services through the GOODSAM app.