Open Letter to Scottish Health Secretary and Chief Medical Officer on the flawed policy of routine Covid-19 testing of asymptomatic health workers

28/07/21

UKMFA have sent an Open Letter to the Scottish CMO and Health Secretary (copying in their English counterparts) asking for the practice of routine mass testing of asymptomatic health workers to stop.  We argue that this is not founded on a solid scientific base and is resulting a large proportion of the healthy workforce having to isolate unnecessarily. This is causing healthcare worker shortages independent of any clinical illness, and threatens to cripple the NHS.