Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

(asked on 13th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many COVID-19 contact tracing workers (1) have been recruited, (2) have been trained, and (3) are currently working on such tracing.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 2nd June 2020

We have recruited over 25,000 contact tracers in England to support contact tracing as part of the new NHS Test and Trace service. These contact tracers are a mix of call handlers and health professionals and will support existing public health experts who have been undertaking outbreak tracing and management throughout the pandemic.

All contact tracers receive appropriate training. In such a large service there will be some turnover of staff and therefore ongoing recruitment and training. Recruitment and training figures will therefore change daily.

The NHS Test and Trace Programme launched on 28 May so newly recruited contact tracers will have started shifts from that point forwards.

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