13 Mar 2020

Links to national coronavirus guidance and advice

National guidance and advice for the sector is available so we've pulled some of the key links together to help you. This guidance is being constantly updated so please check it regularly.

National guidance documents

All Scottish Government health, care and social work coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance

Guidance is available for lots of different topics including:

clinical guidance for different types of service
care home guidance (including visiting guidance)
adults with incapacity
social care assessments
social work
unpaid carers
adult support and protection
testing for health and social care staff
personal protective equipment (PPE)
palliative care.

All Scottish Government education and children coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance

Information and guidance for care home settings from Health Protection Scotland, this page includes:

COVID-19 Information and Guidance for Care Home Settings (updated 31 December 2020)
outbreak control checklist
further advice for staff
safe practice in care homes posters.

COVID-19 - Guidance for Domiciliary Care (care at home) from Health Protection Scotland (updated 20 August 2020)

Guidance for educational and early learning and childcare settings has been updated and incorporated into Health Protection Scotland general advice for all non-healthcare settings (updated 31 December 2020)

Health Protection Scotland coronavirus page (this page lists the latest publication updates)

Care Inspectorate guidance for services on coronavirus

General COVID-19 advice and updates

NHS Inform advice on coronavirus

Scottish Government information on coronavirus in Scotland

Ready Scotland website has information on volunteering, community groups and finding extra support

COVID-19 vaccine information

NHS Inform COVID-19 vaccine page

Public Health Scotland vaccine resource toolkits, includes information for care home, social care and healthcare workers (updated 1 January 2021)

Details of vaccination priority groups (issued by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation)

Work placements

We have published a toolkit of information to support placement providers, students and centres to support the safe return of students to placements. You can download the toolkit here.