Visiting inpatients – current restrictions remain

August 14, 2020

We are taking a cautionary approach to ensure that we can continue to minimise the risk of transmission of COVID-19 so our current visiting restrictions remain in place.

As a reminder, visiting inpatients is only permitted for one person at a time for patients who are at end of life and those with limited mental capacity, one parent/guardian of a child and birthing partners in maternity, as well as other exceptional circumstances. Please make a reasonable local judgement regarding the time you allow for each visit.

Please continue to encourage the use of mobile devices/tablets for families to keep in touch with their loved ones.

We recognise the challenges that are faced by colleagues whilst implementing these restrictions and we want to thank everyone for their support in enforcing the current visiting arrangements. Over the next few weeks we will begin the process of looking at how we can safely ease visiting restrictions.