Policy paper

Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up testing programmes

How the government intends to scale up testing programmes to provide a test to anyone who needs one.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 4 April 2020
• Last updated: 6 April 2020
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  1. 6 April 2020

     Added web version (HTML) of the 'Scaling up our testing programmes' document.

  2. 4 April 2020

     First published.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): scaling up our testing programmes

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Testing is a key pillar of our strategy to protect the NHS and save lives. Our ultimate ambition is that anyone who needs a test should have one.

The government’s testing strategy lays out how we intend to scale up our testing programmes to deliver on this ambition.