COVID-19: testing for hospices
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Sets out COVID-19 testing for hospice patients and staff.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Sets out COVID-19 testing for hospice patients and staff. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- What has changed
- Introduction
- Staff with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive LFD test result
- Hospice staff who provide direct care to severely immunosuppressed hospice patients
- Hospice staff who do not provide direct care to severely immunosuppressed hospice patients
- Patient testing
- On admission
- Symptomatic patients who are eligible for COVID-19 treatments
- Symptomatic patients who are not eligible for COVID-19 treatments
- Outbreak testing
- How to access COVID-19 test kits
- Accessing test kits for people eligible for COVID-19 treatments
- Accessing test kits for staff testing
- Reporting LFD test results
Source and licence
UK Health Security Agency
AttributionUK Health Security Agency, ‘COVID-19: testing for hospices’ (updated 25 March 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026