Health and social care professionals: coronavirus

Guidance and services

• COVID-19: guidance for social or community care and residential settings
  Information about COVID-19 and what social, community and residential care providers need to do.
• COVID-19: guidance for substance misuse and homelessness services
  Information about COVID-19 and what substance misuse and homelessness services need to do.
• Register to rejoin the NHS
  Complete a form to tell us your skills and register to rejoin the NHS and help with coronavirus.
• Returning health professionals and scientists
  How health professionals and scientists can return to the NHS to help during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Repeat prescriptions and COVID-19: guidance for primary care
  How GPs should handle repeat prescriptions during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) changes to testing criteria: CEM/CMO/2020/8
  Providing advice on changes to testing criteria for coronavirus, including testing of health care workers.
• Dental care during the COVID-19 pandemic: guidance for teams
  Explains how dental teams should work from 23 March 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Support for community pharmacies
  Changes to help community pharmacies support the most vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Coronavirus: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines
  NICE guidelines to support the NHS and social care to respond quickly to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
• COVID-19: business continuity and financial support for dental practices providing NHS services
  Letter from the Chief Dental Officer to primary care dental teams detailing financial support.
• In-patient visitors and coronavirus: guidance to the NHS
  How the NHS should manage in-patient visitors during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Visits to care homes and coronavirus: guidance for service providers
  Only essential visits to care homes are allowed during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Coronavirus key (critical) workers
  Who is designated a key worker, if their work is critical to the COVID-19 response.
• Coronavirus: increasing the adult critical care nursing workforce
  Guidance to assist critical care staff in surge response to coronavirus.
• Developing immediate critical care nursing capacity COVID-19: joint statement
  How we will make additional critical care capacity available to meet demand as safely as possible.
• Coordination of medicines delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Principles of a centralised and coordinated approach to medicine delivery.
• Request or provide personal protective equipment (PPE)
  Public sector tell us if you need personal protective equipment (PPE), suppliers tell us if you can provide more.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Support for allied health professionals and support workers during the COVID-19 epidemic
  Policy and strategy
  Thanks health workers and mentions working outside the usual scope of practice during the COVID-19 epidemic.
• Coronavirus and personal protective equipment (PPE)
  Policy and strategy
  Summarises what we're doing to ensure people have the PPE they need to stay safe.
• The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales
  Brings into force Coronavirus Act 2020 provisions relating to the Mental Health Review Tribunal for Wales and local authorities' duties under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.
• Support for healthcare science professionals during the COVID-19 epidemic: joint 4 nation statement
  Policy and strategy
  Thanks healthcare science professionals and mentions working outside the usual scope of practice.
• Temporary approval of home use for both stages of early medical abortion
  Legislation
  Temporary approval to allow women to take both medications required for an early stage abortion from home.