Covid 19: supporting the vulnerable during lockdown Contents

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Contents

Summary

Introduction

Conclusions and recommendations

1 Identifying and supporting vulnerable people

The initial use of clinical criteria to identify people at risk

Identifying all clinically extremely vulnerable people

Local variation in the extent to which people were added to the Shielded Patient List

A centrally-directed system to support clinically extremely vulnerable people

2 Communicating with vulnerable people

Difficulties in gaining assurance that people’s needs were met

Missing or inaccurate telephone numbers

Formal minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament