Covid: Care homes prepare for rapid tests for safer visits

A national programme that supplies rapid tests to homes is designed to enable safer visits.
Lateral flow tests that provide a result in around 30 minutes can be used as part of a range of measures that allow friends and relatives to spend time with loved ones in a controlled fashion.
The tests are designed to be used alongside other infection control procedures. This includes the fact that visitors and residents must wear full PPE.
In the first instance, homes with 50 or more beds are invited to take part in the programme.
Home managers that have received the kits around Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland are carefully following guidance, undertaking training and making changes to their buildings in readiness for introducing the testing.

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