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NHS collaboration launches COVID testing app for healthcare staff

Innovation Solutions Technology by Lee Peart on December 7, 2020

NHS Health Call and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust have developed a COVID home testing app for frontline healthcare staff.

Updated: Home care workers to be tested weekly for COVID-19

Human Resources People by Lee Peart on November 23, 2020

Care workers looking after people in their own homes will be offered weekly coronavirus tests from today, the government has announced.

Rapid coronavirus tests to be delivered to 50 councils in England

Innovation Solutions by Sarah Clarke on November 10, 2020

The mass roll out will enable local teams to test high-risk and priority groups for coronavirus in the community.

Concerns raised for patients sent home without a COVID-19 test result

Intelligence Studies by Sarah Clarke on October 28, 2020

Healthwatch England has called for priority testing for patients returning home from hospital, and for results to be shared with them and their carers.

Care Minister ‘prioritising’ care home visitors over domiciliary care staff, says director

Compliance Legislation by Sarah Clarke on October 27, 2020

The Minister of Care has been accused of prioritising care home visitors over professional home care staff when it comes to testing for coronavirus.

Charity lobbies for COVID-19 testing across all care settings

Campaigns Innovation by Sarah Clarke on October 12, 2020

Guild Care has written to MPs and Sir Keir Starmer, explaining the need to test community care workers in order to minimise the spread of coronavirus.

Coronavirus home testing kits recalled over safety concerns

Compliance Regulation by Sarah Clarke on August 10, 2020

The government has instructed manufacturer Randox to recall its COVID-19 Home Testing Kit sent out to individuals and care settings.

Home care staff demand equal access to COVID-19 testing programme

Compliance Legislation by Sarah Clarke on August 4, 2020

The government rolled out weekly testing for care home staff in July, but home care workers are only eligible for a test if they have symptoms.

VODG calls for government to include home care in COVID-19 testing programme

Compliance Legislation by Sarah Clarke on June 8, 2020

The charity is concerned that the government is overlooking people being cared for in their own homes in the COVID-19 testing programme.

Disabled Britons at risk of being left behind by coronavirus testing scheme

Reports by Sam Lewis on May 26, 2020

VODG also claimed that bodies such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and NHS England have not been forthcoming with data that could prove helpful in responding to the current pandemic.

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