Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 7
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 45
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government must ensure that standards for weekly testing for care home staff are maintained including rapid turnaround times and that regular data is published on the number of tests delivered to social care staff and residents. In addition, the Government should consider extending routine testing beyond care homes to other care settings, particularly domiciliary care and consider including a named key relative in routine testing.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 45, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).