From today, hospitals in Hull will only grant patient visits for “exceptional cases only” which must be approved in advance. The Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has said that the decision to reintroduce restrictions has not been taken “lightly” and revolves around preventing the spread of the Omicron variant. BBC News has the story.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said from Wednesday visits will be limited to “exceptional cases only” and must be approved in advance.
Visitors who are given permission to attend must take a lateral flow test.
The Trust said it had taken the decision “to stop the spread of Covid and to address the risk of this specific variant”.
Hospital bosses said birthing partners will still be allowed to attend when a woman is in labour, to visit antenatal and postnatal wards and to attend antenatal appointments such as scans.
One parent will also still be able to visit children in paediatric wards and both parents will be allowed access to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Chief Nurse Beverley Geary said: “Our duty must be to the patients in our care and we must do everything we can to protect them from the threat of Covid.
“We know the vast majority of the public understand that our patients are already vulnerable and catching the virus could have very serious – and indeed deadly – consequences for them.
“We are not introducing this step lightly. We know it distresses relatives and the patients themselves when they can’t have visitors.”
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I was in hospital after a life saving operation last December. No visits, no going outside the ward doors, little contact with the outside world.. It was only by sheer luck that I had just bought a new smartphone and was thus able to play games, facebook, message and keep in touch with children, husband etc. This edict is yet another example of inhumanity, like the months that care home residents had to endure and are still enduring in places, like the edict last year “don’t kill Granny”. Who are these petty robotic dictators?
Isn’t it a shame hospitals don’t follow the science? Not only a shame, also worrying. Just makes one wonder how many other things they make a mess of. Looking at all the serious hospital related adverse events and deaths, the numbers are worrying.
Iwould be very wary of hospitals restricting visitors after the midazolam ruckus.
Blimey, they’ll be testing for flu, norovirus and mumps next. Okay I know they’re nowhere near as serious as the Great Covid, I’m just a silly person.
This madness is caused by hysteria in our government and medical classes.
Yet again panicking the sheep, ruining the recovery and abusing the population.
Why can’t people see through this insanity.
I’m stunned.
The “Pathway” ( to Hull?) will be popular in hospitals this winter, then.
Yes they are. They have done so without evidence that this variant is a threat. And in taking this action will cause more panic, upset and anguish. Shame on them.
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Not enough folk did the ‘Thursday evening clap’ in Hull and this is the NHS revenge.
The NHS saving itself once more after we actually saved it for them last year and this .Ungreatful bastards, self serving hierarchy enjoying their timein the sun …WHILE IT LASTS !!!!
Yes, only the hospitals should be able to spread Covid, not the poor unfortunate relatives who want to visit.
This is evil, the NHS is evil.
‘Hello Doctor I think my mother has had an adverse reaction to that warp speed jab you stuck in her two hours ago’
Doctor -‘Don’t be daft these warp speed jabs are ‘safe and effective’ everyone says so’.
‘Doctor my mother is unconcious and is showing all the signs of having a stroke, please come and help her’.
Doctor ‘Soz, I’m doing boosta jabs today and all the rest of the month, £15 a pop, if I come out to your mum I’ll lose at least £300 worth of jab bonus cash, and that aint happening’.
‘My mother just died, I want you to report this on the yellow card system as an adverse reaction’
Doctor ‘It is my professional view that the vaccine had nothing to do with your mother’s stroke, if these vaccines get pulled I will lose all my £15 a go bonus cash and I’ve got a luxury Christmas to pay for’.
That about sums it up.
The Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has said ‘We need to start murdering the elderly at higher rates in order to justify the vaccine passports and its much harder to kill people with any relatives around.’
How about a Hannibal Lecter mask campaign? Let’s freak the maskers out.
I’ve been thinking about getting one of those plague doctor masks with the long beak for use if I go somewhere that the exemption won’t work (e.g. the gym I go to, though they haven’t reimposed mask enforcement yet)
There was someone wandering round an area of Norwich last year dressed as a plague doctor. Ended up getting a ‘words of advice’ from the pigs as it was upsetting kids apparently.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-52533718
Another reported “Suddenlydied” – as usual now, no explanation given, just a biography.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10262143/Scotland-international-rugby-player-Siobhan-Cattigan-tragically-dies.html
Only so long they can try and glaze over all these young tragic deaths without demands for explanations.
This is what it’s all about .. Chinafication
https://www.bitchute.com/video/od03vT1BSvND/
Please share widely as you can .. it needs to go viral
Ah- Chief Nurse Beverley Geary! Sorry, I misread her surname as “Allitt”. My mistake.
It isn’t the visitors that are spreading covid within hospitals.
It’s not really news. The James Paget in Yarmouth stopped allowing visitors around the first week of November.
UK Column News – 1st December 2021
Unfortunately.. it seems those Covid 19 alerts may be fake.. I said maybe. There’s been a lot of discussion on Off Guardian about them. Now, whether they are or not I don’t know, I’m just pointing this out..
If anybody from the Leeds/Wakefield area is reading this: a spate of stickers/little notices has appeared in the area, carrying the headline “The Police Are Not Your Friends”….then a bit more Dave Spart- style agitprop, then a number to ring to join whatever the group calls itself.
They’re all over the place; none has been removed. Very suspicious. Don’t ring that number, folks.
The police are your friend if you are a Muslim rapist, black lives matter, antifa, a whoopsie, transgender or an illegal immigrant.
If you are an indigenous heterosexual Brit the police will smash your skull at the first opportunity.
Sad to say that seems par for the course at the moment..
If it’s counter propaganda, i’m OK with that.
Dont forget – there is a group of people doing this intentionally and they are laughing in your face at how easy it is for them to get away with this crap:
COVID-19 Predictive Programming at the 2012 Olympics in London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4aiScgSvCs
I watched the latest Dan Brown movie, Inferno, last night. The whole narrative is a concoction of covid and Cock26. It even has the whole “1 minute to midnight” rhetoric they used to argue carbon zero.
As you say, they’re laughing at us.
Yes the climate change from CO2 world going to end hoax is pure fear driven control bullshit. Their sales pitch is this:
“Do what we tell you to do or the world is going to end”.
Mafia style bullying and coercion. They have no credilbility, nothing they are doing is legit, its all inverted and upside down. They have been doing this for decades, now it is becoming undeniably obvious.
This old book has some clues about this:
report from iron mountain
https://www.pdfdrive.com/report-from-iron-mountain-e57187892.html
It’s pretty clear that large sections of our society really quite enjoy these restrictions and seek to bring them back any time they can.
Only if they’re getting paid.
Some of them would like the furlough scheme to return – 80% wages (or more if the employer decides to top it up), for sitting on their arse at home.
yep, precisely
Anything to allow the soon to be sainted or else sacked healthcare professionals to exert control over the great unwashed. Last year I had a staff nurse tell me that I could visit my partially blind, hard of hearing 89 year old mother in hospital for 1 hour once a week. While standing in a deserted, empty 6 bed ward. My mother was in a side room.
An aspect of what lies behind this sort of decision.
Leaving aside the basic venality that lies at the root of the current totalitarian suppression, every day brings further examples of the ‘Floater Syndrome’ : the way in which the promotion of the simply incompetent to positions of considerable power has passed a critical point. Decision making is very much left to those incapable of the job as a class of escapees, significance seekers and arse-lickers have been disproportionately placed in roles way above their abilities.
The venal are supported by a whole cadre of intellectually and morally weak and characterless functionaries.
Sounds like socialism.
For the indelibly gormless and clueless : the neoliberal right has actually been in charge for 40-odd years. Doh!
That’s the problem with defining yourself as a negative : you just become a black hole where intelligence should be.
Yep, sounds more & more like a socialist.
Please … we’re all on the side of individual liberty and debating how to recover it. I’d probably agree with both of you on some things, just as in the vote in March Davis Davis and Desmond Swayne voted on the same side as Clive Lewis and Graham Stringer MP.
Please, Sir….. He started it.
Best comment. Trust me this is the case in most corporations too. I can name an investment bank I worked for. Once those incompetents make it to the top through arse licking they protect their positions by hiring only incompetent people (growing and growing in numbers by the day through our education system). You see, they know they’re useless. Truly competent staff get demonised and pushed out. Slowly slowly departments become cockroach motels.
We are witnessing the social corporatisation of industries, including the government.
Absolutely 100%. The civil service, indeed I believe all public service employer’s are the same – they now routinely employ idiots and promote the lazy and incompetents.
Before I left some of the newly recruited staff struggled to communicate in written English. Spoken English wasn’t much better.
And this is nowhere more true than in the civil service.
Same NHS that promotes mental health awareness now a major contributor to new mental health disorders in Hull (and elsewhere) abusing the most vulnerable people at a time of great stress that is inevitable with hospitalisation and visiting. Once again we see NHS run for the convenience and ease of staff and not the patients.
I wouldn’t blame this on the staff in general. More on the people who came to the NHS because that was another political career, IOW, the managers.
Gold medalist athlete, 24, dies 2 weeks after contracting Covid — RT Sport News
The article then links to these recent cases.
.https://www.rt.com/sport/541525-russian-ice-hockey-young-star-dies/
https://www.rt.com/sport/539312-bruno-sadecki-hockey-player-khl-death/
The only way I can imagine denazifying the NHS would be for medical staff with courage and principles to group together and whistleblow. For this they will need to step out of their institutionalised stupor and see the bigger picture. If they do not, the NHS will continue to be used as a terrorist weapon in the hands of the persons responsible for this crime. The NHS is the UK’s biggest employer as far as I know. So we all know at least one NHS employee. Time to start applying pressure.
There won’t be any medical staff with courage and principles left come next April.
Some of them can see the bigger picture, albeit through a fog, but that goes for all of us sceptics to some extent. What they need to do is start talking with each other in a way that leads somewhere, without any union representative aspiring future “human resources” official present.
This is why people have been saddled with mortgages for their homes, and other debts – to keep them in line and fearful of losing their job and income. Fear of being made homeless and hungry, Few nurses and doctors will become ‘whistleblowers’.
“Fear” the control mechanism of the 20th/21st centuries, ‘whistleblowers’ are just labelled conspiracy theorists or criminals now.
Yes.. you’re dead right there with the mortgage necklace..
I think you should lead the way via your teaching “profession.”
Please keep us up to date with the progress of your own whistleblow group.
Go on – you can do it.
And yes, the NHS is the UK’s biggest employer.
Clap for the NHS. My arse!!
“Hospital bosses said birthing partners will still be allowed to attend when a woman is in labour“.
How transphobic 🙂 Didn’t they get the memo? That should be “birthing partners will still be allowed to attend when a gestational parent is in labour”.