The NHS has now issued its new central guidance for use of face masks in clinical settings. It tells hospitals and other clinical settings to cease the requirement for staff, patients and visitors to wear a face mask unless Covid positive or working with those who are or may be Covid positive. This is good news, though it could go further as it means A&E staff and others working in untriaged settings will continue to be usually masked, plus it perpetuates the nonsense that masks prevent the spread of COVID-19. Read the new guidance in full below.
For health and care staff:
• Health and care staff should continue to wear facemasks as part of personal protective equipment required for transmission-based precautions when working in COVID-19/respiratory care pathways, and when clinically caring for suspected/confirmed COVID-19 patients. This is likely to include settings where untriaged patients may present such as emergency departments or primary care, depending on local risk assessment. In all other clinical care areas, universal masking should be applied when there is known or suspected cluster transmission of SARS-CoV-2, e.g. during an outbreak, and/or if new SARS-CoV-2 VOC emerge.
• Universal masking should also be considered in settings where patients are at high risk of infection due to immunosuppression e.g. oncology/haematology. This should be guided by local risk assessment.
• Health and care staff are in general not required to wear facemasks in nonclinical areas e.g. offices, social settings, unless this is their personal preference or there are specific issues raised by a risk assessment. This should also be considered in community settings.
For inpatients:
• Inpatients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be provided with a facemask on admission. This should be worn in multi-bedded bays and communal areas, e.g. waiting areas for diagnostics, if this can be tolerated and is deemed safe for the patient. They are not usually required in single rooms, unless, e.g., a visitor enters.
• All other inpatients are not necessarily required to wear a facemask unless this is a personal preference. However, in settings where patients are at high risk of infection due to immunosuppression e.g. oncology/haematology, patients may be encouraged to wear a facemask following a local risk assessment.
• Patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 transferring to another care area should wear a facemask (if tolerated) to minimise the dispersal of respiratory secretions and reduce environmental contamination.
• The requirement for patients to wear a facemask must never compromise their clinical care, such as when oxygen therapy is required or where it causes distress, e.g. paediatric/mental health settings.
For outpatients, UEC and primary care:
• Patients with respiratory symptoms who are required to attend for emergency treatment should wear a facemask/covering, if tolerated, or offered one on arrival.
• All other patients are not required to wear a facemask unless this is a personal preference.
For visitors:
• In inpatient settings where patients are at high risk of infection due to immunosuppression, e.g. oncology/haematology, visitors may be asked to wear a facemask following a local risk assessment.
• Visitors and individuals accompanying patients to outpatient appointments or the emergency department are not routinely required to wear a facemask unless this is a personal preference, although they may be encouraged to do so following a local risk assessment.
Now, will the hospitals and other clinical settings follow it, or will their “local risk assessments” have other ideas?
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Very good.
The problems with modelling for political purposes are replicated with horrific effect upon Western Civilisation through the Climate Crisis Hoax. It has become fuel for the most criminal power grab in human history and excised the most destructive forces upon human freedom and prosperity ever seen.
Sorry but this statement is bullshit:
population starting to distrust other vaccines and protective healthcare in general – this could end up with many people suffering serious illness or even death from the scourges of humanity’s past, such as measles, diphtheria and polio
Utterly freaking wrong. Typhus/dipth from horse shit,fecal matter spread by flies or ingestion. Polio is from arsenic and chemicals in food / water. Measles IFR is close to zero and always has been. There is zero proof that the stabs did anything vs sanitation.
Please read Turtles all the way down for more info, there is an entire elucidating chapter on polio which shatters the myth of quacksine science.
They all contain poisons.
Leaving aside the merits or otherwise of vaccines in general and vaccines that are in common use, on which I am not qualified to pronounce, I think that people developing a strong scepticism for anyone who tells them “this is for your own good” must be a good thing rather than a source of regret.
Quite. Hygiene, sanitation and clean water have saved ANY more number of lives compared to jabs.
http://vaccinepapers.org/
It’s an interesting debate for sure. I’m certainly no expert, but have listened to both sides of the argument and find it very difficult to wholeheartedly agree with one side or the other. I certainly do think that vaccine harm in general is underplayed. My gut instinct is that the truth lies somewhere in the middle, which it usually does, in that there may be some vaccines that have a net benefit, but that the gradual improvement of sanitation and healthcare has played a significant hand. I don’t believe that the ridiculous child vaccination schedule can do anything other than net harm. That’s just my gut though.
While I disagree with your statement, I very much accept that it is a point that you’re entitled to bring up. There’s far too much ‘bow to authority’ in medicine, and some of the rationale behind some (too many) of the recommendations is rather weak.
I suggest that medicine is going to have a lot of work to undo the harm that has been caused over the last 3 years. Hopefully this will lead to some robust studies into the effectiveness of many of the medical products that have been thrust upon society over the decades.
All this flipflopping smacks of desperation.
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We are now seeing signs of the population starting to distrust other vaccines and protective healthcare in general …
Yep, that’s me. I’ll never trust a doctor or medical professional again. Sorry, they’ve earned it.
A profession without a shred of credibility.
Anyone want to argue the opposite?
“A profession without a shred of credibility.”
Talk about a profession, indeed a whole industry being hollowed out. This 100 year old medical pharmacology business is shortly to enter its death throes and not before time. Holistic and nature based medicine is needed now more than ever.
My branch of medicine, sports and exercise medicine, deals primarily with lifestyle.
I no longer work with professional sportspeople and focus on lifestyle, diet, as well as musculoskeletal disease and injury.
I rarely prescribe drugs, and frequently cease people’s medications, improving pathology with a healthier lifestyle.
Not rocket surgery, though amazing how 99% of the profession resets to pills first.
99% of the profession resets to pills first
Yep, that’s what I’ve seen – and can’t think of any instances where it’s done any good.
Seriously though – as a doctor – don’t you think the profession is now reputationally broken? I don’t see how it recovers from this, inside of a generation.
Sports medicine: in my experience one of the biggest problems is over-training, leading to immune system depletion and musco-skeletal injuries.
I swim a fair bit – so not much risk of significant musco-skeletal injury. One problem though can be outer ear infections. I’ve had loads. Years ago I’d go to the doctor who’d prescribe anti-biotics, which worked for a few days then as soon as the course finished the infection would come back. And so more anti-biotics …
Then I discovered rubbing alcohol. Now I treat ear infections myself and cure them much quicker than any doctor I’ve ever dealt with. Even vinegar can work. Presumably whisky or brandy might as well. I guess any actual doctor would be horrified.
“Seriously though – as a doctor – don’t you think the profession is now reputationally broken?”
Yes.
Regarding overtraining – agreed that it can be an issue, at times with major consequences.
Hence my avoidance now of elite spert.
Amateur sport avoids this, as well as gambling and doping.
Ethically much more rewarding.
Yes.
Well thanks for being so candid.
Do you think anything can be done about it? Society needs health care it can trust, so something has to be done.
I suppose that implicit in my question is what has gone wrong with the profession?
Two potential explanations spring to mind.
First, doctors, intelligent and well-educated as they clearly are, lack capacity for critical thinking.
Second, they just don’t care.
I don’t think no. 2 can be entirely true (although it might be in some individuals). So I’m left with no. 1. But has doesn’t seem satisfactory either. How can well-educated, intelligent people be so dumb??
I’m struggling with this. Anyone think of anything else?
Always good to hear the opinions of medical professionals and pharma employees on here btw.
And I always imagined over-training was more of a problem in amateur sports, as generally amateurs don’t have coaches observing them to see when things are going awry, but I’d stand to be corrected on this. I suspect a lot of dark things go on in professional sports, that don’t make the back pages or TV screens. And from what I’ve seen once elite athletes drop out of professional sports they are on their own, not always with happy consequences.
My son may move in that direction. He’s currently a GP but doesn’t see that as a long term job any more.
It’s the protocols and pills that I see as an unattractive part of the job and the lack of individualisation nowadays. The sad thing is that many people just want to take drugs but not take charge of their own health.
The sad thing is that many people just want to take drugs but not take charge of their own health.
Yes, I think that’s spot on.
The even sadder thing is that their sense of entitlement extended to expecting others to take an untested gene therapy such that they didn’t need to take responsibility for their own health.
Same here.
Not for a moment TJN, who could blame you?
I rejected the jabs and I won’t be having any vaccines or “vaccines” in the future. I stay away from the medical profession as much as I possibly can …. which (although I’m in my early 60s) is most of the time since I take care of my own health.
If I had young children I would be VERY particular about the vaccines / “vaccines” they would have.
Something is driving the huge increase in autism-spectrum amongst children and I strongly suspect it is the amount of chemicals that are being injected into their young bodies at a very young age.