PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Care Homes: Visits (30 November 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether care home visitors will be required to wear personal protective equipment including masks, gloves and aprons when visiting family members after receiving a negative covid-19 test under the care home visitor testing programme.

Asked by:
Laura Trott (Conservative)

When visiting a care home, all visitors should wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for the duration of their visit, regardless of whether they have been tested or not. The appropriate PPE for visitors can be determined using the guidance at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-how-to-work-safely-in-domiciliary-care

Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
14 December 2020