The Challenge

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Home Tests for the coronavirus, should the coordinator be available to NHS employees in the UK "very soon", the government, Test.

Prof John Newton , recognised that health and care fought the workers to access testing sites.

The government said the lack of "demand" rather than capacity figures behind the slow growth in The Test .

But The British Medical Association (BMA), The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Unison in question have this.

you, long car rides, or problems accessing the drive-through sites, without a car, preventing employees from tested say.

There Are 27 exam centres and there Are reports that some of these employees travel hundreds of miles to your closest location.

The government says it is the ability to do, over 40,000 Tests per day in the UK, but only about half of up to 20,000 Tests - is actually processed.

A Downing Street spokesman said the government is "absolutely" their goal, the implementation of 100,000 Tests per day until The End of April.

barriers

The prospect of a home test offers Some Hope , if there is to be another large obstacle for employees: The Test must be within The First few days of symptoms.

Some of them have been missing because people went too bad to travel to a testing centre, which is to saffron Cordey, head of the NHS provider, the hospital trusts.

But overall, the proportion of employees that Are authorized, tested is actually quite small, She Said .

At The Moment , the priority is The Test -key workers to be off work it is because you have symptoms or someone in your household has.

Ms Cordey roughly estimated that about 150,000 people Are at The Moment , but over half of these suffering from other diseases. Some of the shielding will be due to the long-term conditions.

She Said the reasons for the government of the 100,000 Tests per day target is not "quite clear", but welcomes the "challenge" that made it available.

Public Health England (PHE) tested a system of UK-wide self-Tests for the main workers, but in the meantime, ready to Roll Out , most of them can yet be tested in their homes.

'Too far'

In the meantime, head of The Royal College of Nursing, Dame Donna Kinnair, said testing for the employees and their households should be held "at or near to their workplace", to ensure that it is accessible.

She Said nurses had told the College that the existing Tests have been sites "that Are too Far Away from you".

While some doctors and nurses could be tested in their clinics, this is not generally possible for the nursing staff distributed to thousands of smaller construction sites.

In the case of those who isolate themselves, because someone you Live With has symptoms, it will be tested to the members of the household must, as well as The Key -worker.

This group will be larger and harder to reach, to come as their recommendation, we need to about the health or care of the employee.

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Source of news: bbc.com