COVID-19: Testing for Care Home Staff

Part of 6. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:03 pm on 15 July 2020.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 3:03, 15 July 2020

Can I concur with the comments and questions that were posed by my colleague Janet Finch-Saunders at the opening of this topical questions session? Minister, a lot has been said about the importance of testing and tracking and the issues in the domiciliary care sector. I know that Aneurin Bevan University Health Board have put a particular emphasis recently on testing patients before they leave hospital to go either into a care home setting or back to their own home to a domiciliary care setting. That seems to be a pretty sensible practice. Is that widespread across Wales, and are you looking at ways that testing like this could be extended and other ways that the domiciliary care sector can be made as COVID-free as possible?