Testing for asymptomatic patients moving into care settings will end from April 1. READ MORE:Routine lateral flow testing for Brits discharged from hospitals into care homes will be axed from next week.
It means the new system in England, enforced from April 1, will only see free tests provided to some groups, including staff on inpatient wards treating immunocompromised individuals.Under the Government's 'living with Covid' blueprint, the shift is designed to bring guidance in line with other respiratory illnesses like flu.
NHS trusts will have 'local discretion' to reintroduce Covid testing 'as clinically appropriate following risk assessment', she added. Failures to test patients who were discharged into care homes at the start of the pandemic remains one of the Government's most controversial Covid measures Professor Martin Green, its chief executive, said: 'People who live in care homes are often living with many health conditions and are susceptible to infectious diseases.
Failures to test patients who were discharged into care homes at the start of the pandemic remains one of Government's most controversial Covid measures.
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