Submitted on Wednesday 14th October 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 21st October 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Enable access to priority Covid-19 testing for domiciliary care staff.
Domiciliary care staff are in the front line when it comes to supporting vulnerable older people in their own homes. At present they are unable to access priority testing if they are symptomatic nor are they able to access regular testing to check they are not asymptomatic carriers.
Domiciliary care is not able to restrict visitors to individual's own homes. It is not able to ensure staff only see one customer. It has several staff visiting each customer every week, increasing risk to the customer each time. Whilst wearing full PPE helps to mitigate the risk a lack of speedy testing for symptomatic staff and their families is likely to severely impact the availability of staff over the winter. Staff have to isolate for 14 days every time a child coughs, or has a fever.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:
Make Covid-19 test kits available to all care homes, for the residents and staff: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/312785
Provide weekly Covid 19 tests for NHS staff and care workers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329535
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