‘The government has left us to the wolves’.
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A survey of NHS leaders revealed they think free Covid tests should continue for the public and self-isolation rules need to remain.
The NHS Confederation polled more than 300 senior staff in England, with 79 per cent saying they strongly disagreed or disagreed with the scrapping of free access to coronavirus tests.
On Monday Boris Johnson is set to announce his plan for living with Covid-19, with ministers hinting that free tests could be axed.
Testing for health staff and other key workers should also continue, according to 94 per cent of the 307 NHS leaders polled in the survey.
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Currently NHS staff are asked to test at home twice a week.
Asked on Thursday if free Covid tests would be scrapped next week, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said “the protections we’ve enjoyed over the last few months” should be “reviewed”.
The survey also found that more than three-quarters would disagree with any axing of the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive Covid result in favour of it being advisory only.
Furthermore, more than four in five (82 per cent) would be against ending compulsory mask-wearing in the NHS and care homes.
The NHS Confederation is urging a cautious approach, warning that planned care and access to the NHS could be disrupted if further Covid waves take hold or there are more variants.
Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “Hospital admissions and deaths linked to coronavirus continue to fall nationally and this is allowing the NHS to bring back many routine services that it was asked to deprioritise during the peaks of the pandemic, including some non-urgent elective procedures.
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‘The government has left us to the wolves’.
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COVID.Downing Street has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reveal details of his “living with COVID” plan on Monday (February 21) – outlining that factors such as vaccination, testing, and anti-viral drugs will be enough to keep people safe, rather than expecting infected people to stay at home.Self-isolation regulations for those who test positive and their close contacts are expected to cease by the end of this week.“COVID will not suddenly disappear, and we need to learn to live with this virus and continue to protect ourselves without restricting our freedoms,” said Johnson. “We’ve built up strong protections against this virus over the past two years through the vaccine rollouts, tests, new treatments and the best scientific understanding of what this virus can do.”He added: “Thanks to our successful vaccination programme and the sheer magnitude of people who have come forward to be jabbed, we are now in a position to set out our plan for living with COVID this week.”Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary told BBC‘s Sunday Morning today (February 20) this was “declaring victory before the war is over”, that ending mandatory self-isolation was “not the right thing to do” and that this was a distraction from the ongoing ‘partygate’ scandal.“At this stage the PM risks muddying the waters,” he said. “We want to see the government publish the scientific advice because at the moment this seems very premature.”“He continued: It seems like Boris Johnson is keen to declare victory before the war is over in the hope he gets some headlines about ‘victory day on COVID’ instead police officers asking questions about actions in Number 10.”Labour Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells #Raworth that dropping remaining
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Prince Charles is self-isolating after contracting Covid for a second time. In a statement, a Clarence House spokesperson said: "This morning The Prince of Wales has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating.