Questions and Answers

What is the current situation in healthcare and how will it recover from Covid?

Our business is desk-based and therefore low-risk. With restrictions lifting, will we still need to provide hand sanitiser in the workplace?

Who is entitled to paid annual leave?

What is the Government being urged to do with regards to Body Mass Index (BMI) and its impact on body image?

What percentage of consultations should now be online and how is this supported?

What is happening to Public Health and Public Health England?

A number of my employees are practising Muslims. They have complained that they consider themselves to be forced to take time off over Christmas (because we have a one week shut down) and yet they have to use up their holiday entitlement if they want to take time off over Ramadan, which lasts for a month. They believe this amounts to religious discrimination. What can we do?

Please can you confirm that it is acceptable to dispose of Covid lateral flow tests in the general waste, if they are used as part of a large-scale workplace testing programme? A friend working in healthcare has told us that these tests are classified as healthcare waste.

What should Advance Care Planning look like during a pandemic?

How is the government white paper on proposed NHS reform: Working Together to Improve Health and Social Care for all, likely to affect Primary Care Networks and Clinical commissioning Groups?