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Publication #7705
Reference
DL(2022)32
Name
Advance Notice of a Pause of Asymptomatic Staff Testing in Health and Social Care and Asymptomatic Testing in Hospitals to be in place by the end of September 2022 (superseded)
Categories
Scottish Government
DL (CEL, HDL, MEL)
CMO Letters
CNO Letters
Organization
Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates
Keywords
NHS
SCOTLAND
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
VIRUSES
CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
Description
The Test and Protect Transition Plan published in March 2022 stated that routine asymptomatic testing in health and social care would be kept under regular clinical review as pandemic conditions and associated threat levels continue to change. Vaccination and treatment effectiveness and the roll out of the Autumn booster vaccination programme has reduced the risk of severe harm from the transmission of COVID-19. The UK alert level has therefore reduced to level 2, while the Scotland threat level remains at Medium.
A full list of the testing that is recommended to pause and the testing that should continue is in Annex A.
This article is now superseded.
This article is now superseded.
Contact Name
Contact Email
Contact Address
Scottish Government<br> Directorate for Chief Nursing Officer<br> St Andrew’s House<br> EDINBURGH EH1 3DG.
Created
2022-09-14 00:00:00
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