Covid-19: Key responsibilities for Agency managers
In this blog, we will cover COVID testing, vaccine guidance & care providers' responsibilities in a domiciliary setting. Testing: National Health Service Test and Trace is making weekly COVID-19 testing available to all domiciliary care workers in England. All registered agencies will be contacted with details of how to apply for test kits for their registered domiciliary care workers. Registered domiciliary care agencies are responsible for ordering and distributing test kits to all their workers for them to conduct at home on a weekly basis. Domiciliary worker testing should be conducted only on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (if the care worker is able to access a priority post box that accepts Sunday collections). Your involvement: If you manage a domiciliary care agency , are responsible for a team of care workers or have been delegated responsibility for testing by your organisation, your key responsibilities are to: Attend a webinar to learn the proce...