Recommendation 181

The Health and Social Care Committee’s Reports on social care and the delivery of core NHS and care services during the pandemic also highlighted the impact of a lack of testing for social care staff in the initial wave of the pandemic. Evidence from across the sector, including from staff themselves, was unanimous that the lack of provision of regular testing for social care staff had meant that social care staff were more likely to transmit the disease within care homes.269 263 Q825 264 Q825 265 Oral evidence taken before the Health and Social Care Committee on 21 July 2020, HC (2019–21) 36, Q620 266 British Infection Association (CLL0079)) 267 Public Health England, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, The contribution of nosocomial infections to the first wave, 28 January 2021. 268 See paragraphs 263–267. 269 Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report of Session 2019–21, Social care: funding and workforce, HC 206, paras 44, 45; Health and Social Care Committee, Second Report of Session 2019–21, Delivering core NHS and care services during the pandemic and beyond, HC 320, Paras 91, 92 Coronavirus: lessons learned to date 65 100,000 tests a day target introduced by Secretary of State