PHS FOI 2024-001849
- Date of request
- 19 February 2024
- Date of response
- 17 April 2024
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2024-001849
- Corporate information
Request
“You may be aware of a petition I submitted to the Parliament (https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2071), to which Scottish Government recently responded: https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/citizen-participation-and-public-petitions-committee/correspondence/2023/pe2071/pe2071_a.pdf . I have just responded,
I was interested to note the following:
“The extended use of face masks and face coverings guidance across health and social care settings was withdrawn on 16 May 2023. This followed advice from ARHAI Scotland and Public Health Scotland (PHS) that health and social care settings should revert to the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual (NIPCM) and the Care Home Infection Prevention and Control Manual (CH IPCM).”
I have seen the ARHAI advice but was not aware of advice from PHS. I wonder if you could direct me to it on the PHS website, or wherever it may be published in the public domain. If it is not publicly available, please can you treat this as a Freedom of Information request.”