Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has published guidance on whether people in care homes with covid-19 virus should not be admitted to hospitals.
It is our priority to ensure that everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
On 18 September 2020, the Government published ‘Adult social care – our COVID-19 winter plan 2020 to 2021’. The guidance sets out the National Health Service policy that clinical decision making should always be personalised and never done on a blanket basis. This includes decisions on admission to hospital and on the use of ambulances.