COVID-19 testing in adult social care
This guidance replaces all previous guidance for testing in adult social care and applies to:
- care homes
- homecare organisations
- extra care and supported living services
- adult day care centres
- personal assistants
- shared lives carers
- social workers
Sections that are specific to a type of service will be clearly signposted.
This guidance uses the term ‘testing coordinator’ to describe the role that the person ordering and overseeing testing has in the process. The testing coordinator may be the service manager, or someone else who has responsibility for testing in the service.