21080 CCC and PCC Urgent and Surge Community Swabbing Service for Covid-19

Background National Approach to Test and Trace • The Government launched the NHS Test and Trace Service on 28th May 2020. This national service is designed to control the virus and enable people to live a safer and more normal life. The overarching guiding principles being Test; Trace; Contain; Enable. • The NHS Test and Trace Service will work as a proposed 3 tier system; Tier 1 is of relevance for the local testing system • Tier 1 will be a regionalised network, including sub-regional and localised delivery...