Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time is that it takes (a) directors of public health and (b) GPs to receive covid-19 test results.
The vast majority of people who have a test through the National Testing Programme get their result the next day. Public Health England receives a data feed of these results after they have been processed by the labs and uploaded to the National Pathology Exchange every 30 minutes. The test results also flow into general practitioner records, if a National Health Service number or other identifying information has been provided.