Guidance

Coronavirus (COVID-19) lateral flow testing in adult social care settings

Sets out how adult social care services can carry out rapid lateral flow tests on site.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 5 March 2021
• Last updated: 11 March 2021 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 26 April 2021

This guidance on this page has moved.

For ‘On-site testing for adult social care services’ go to Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing for adult social care settings.

For ‘Testing for professionals visiting care homes’ go to Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in adult care homes.

Documents

On-site testing for adult social care services

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Testing for professionals visiting care homes

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Details

This guidance explains how adult social care services can prepare and manage on-site lateral flow testing.

This can include testing of:

• staff
• visiting professionals
• people getting care and support from social care services
• other visitors (family and friends)

Published 5 March 2021

Last updated 11 March 2021 + show all updates

1. 11 March 2021

   Added HTML attachment: 'Testing for professionals visiting care homes'.

2. 5 March 2021

   First published.