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Department of Health

Guidance: Testing for coronavirus before hospital

Published 15 December 2020 Last updated 26 February 2021 +show all updates 26 February 2021 Added Punjabi (Shahmukhi) translation of 'Testing for COVID-19 before a hospital procedure (easy read)'. 19 February 2021 Added Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujerati, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Slovak, Somali, Urdu and Welsh translations of Testing for COVID-19 before a hospital procedure (easy read). 19 February 2021 Added 'Testing for COVID-19 before a hospital procedure (easy read)'. 11 February 2021 Added supporting guidance for testing before hospital treatment. 15 December 2020 First published. Source link

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26 February 2021
Department of Health

Guidance: Testing for coronavirus before hospital

Published 15 December 2020 Last updated 19 February 2021 +show all updates 19 February 2021 Added Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujerati, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Slovak, Somali, Urdu and Welsh translations of Testing for COVID-19 before a hospital procedure (easy read). 19 February 2021 Added 'Testing for COVID-19 before a hospital procedure (easy read)'. 11 February 2021 Added supporting guidance for testing before hospital treatment. 15 December 2020 First published. Source link

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19 February 2021
Department of Health

Guidance: Testing for coronavirus before hospital

Published 15 December 2020 Last updated 19 February 2021 +show all updates 19 February 2021 Added 'Testing for COVID-19 before a hospital procedure (easy read)'. 11 February 2021 Added supporting guidance for testing before hospital treatment. 15 December 2020 First published. Source link

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19 February 2021
Department of Health

Guidance: Hospital discharge service: policy and operating model

Department Of Health Hospital discharge service: policy and operating model HTML Hospital discharge service: policy and operating model PDF, 1.26MB, 48 pages This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need aversion of this document in a more accessible format, please email publications@dhsc.gov.uk.Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use. Details This document sets out how health and care systems can ensure that people: are discharged safely from hospital to the most appropriate place continue to receive the…

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19 February 2021
Department of Health

Guidance: Testing for coronavirus before hospital

Department Of Health Details If you are going into hospital, you must take your COVID-19 swab test exactly 3 days before the day of your procedure.This guidance details how to: check the test kit contents register your test kit online book your courier collection prepare, take and package your swab sample give your completed test kit box to the courier get your test results by textThe test outlined in this guidance is suitable for: adults aged 18 and over teenagers aged 12 to 17 children 11 and under Published 15 December 2020 Last updated 11 February 2021 +show all updates 11 February 2021 Added supporting guidance for testing…

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11 February 2021
Press release: NHS patients to receive life-saving COVID-19 treatments that could cut hospital time by 10 days
Department of Health

Press release: NHS patients to receive life-saving COVID-19 treatments that could cut hospital time by 10 days

Patients in intensive care units across the UK are to receive potentially life-saving treatments for COVID-19 Government ensures life-saving drugs will be available in NHS healthcare settings with immediate effectPatients across the UK who are admitted to intensive care units due to COVID-19 are set to receive new life-saving treatments which can reduce the time spent in hospital by up to 10 days, the government has announced today (Thursday 7 January).Results from the government-funded REMAP-CAP clinical trial published today showed tocilizumab and sarilumab reduced the relative risk of death by 24%, when administered to patients within 24 hours of entering intensive care.Most of the data came from when…

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7 January 2021
COVID-19: guidance for stepdown of infection control precautions within hospitals and discharging COVID-19 patients from hospital to home settings
Public Health England

COVID-19: guidance for stepdown of infection control precautions within hospitals and discharging COVID-19 patients from hospital to home settings

Published 9 April 2020 Last updated 18 December 2020 + show all updates 18 December 2020 Updated to include information on designated settings and exemption from re-testing. 30 July 2020 Changes to self-isolation policy for all admitted patients to 14 days; updated section 3 to include the provision of written instructions for ongoing isolation when discharging patients. 20 May 2020 Updated guidance (all sections). 23 April 2020 Added clarifications of testing capacity and strategy and re-ordered the page for improved readability. 18 April 2020 Clarified text and reordered sections. 9 April 2020 First published. Source link

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18 December 2020
Department of Health

Guidance: How charges for NHS hospital care will apply to overseas visitors from 1 January 2021

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17 December 2020
Hospital tooth extractions of 0 to 19 year olds
Public Health England

Hospital tooth extractions of 0 to 19 year olds

Published 6 March 2019 Last updated 17 December 2020 + show all updates 17 December 2020 Added data for the financial year 2019 to 2020. 30 March 2020 Updated to correct errors for NHSRLO geography counts. 12 March 2020 Updated to include data from 2018 to 2019. 6 March 2019 First published. Source link

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17 December 2020