Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 2nd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) create and (b) publish a testing pathway that enables local health leaders to track where individual tests are being sent; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th November 2020

All upper tier local authorities have access to record level testing data including sex, age, occupation and postcode.

We also publish public dashboards at a national, regional and local authority level and the Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) map, which allows individuals to type in a postcode to find their MSOA and see how many cases there are in small areas of around 7,000 people.

Data on the seven day average for the number of people with coronavirus identified through a National Health Service laboratory (pillar 1) or from commercial swab testing (pillar 2) back to March 2020 is available as part of the NHS Digital Progression Dashboard to Upper Tier Local Authority Level and is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/dashboards/progression

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