Highest-risk patients eligible for Covid-19 treatments: guide for patients

The Department of Health and Social Care have published new guidance on highest risk patients eligible for new Covid-19 treatments.

This document supplements the Higher-risk patients eligible for Covid-19 treatments: independent advisory group report published on 30 May 2022

It covers:

  • the highest risk patient groups

  • how some of these individuals will be identified and contacted automatically (or ‘digitally’) if they test positive for coronavirus

  • details of which groups can be identified digitally and those that cannot

  • guidance for accessing treatment for eligible people who cannot be identified digitally