Hospital patients are being denied visits from loved ones by trusts using outdated Covid restrictions, according to the Telegraph.
Analysis shows that despite the NHS telling hospitals to open up last March, 70% of trusts still have some form of visiting restrictions in place.
A majority of hospitals are still not allowing more than two visitors at a time, with some patients only able to see friends and family for one hour a day. Other hospitals are preventing close contacts from attending appointments.
Across inpatient wards, accident and emergency departments, outpatient clinics and maternity wards, the Telegraph has found instances where families are being restricted from seeing loved ones.
Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, is resisting setting any “national diktats” on visiting rules, despite calls from patient campaigners to end “lockdown-era policies”. It comes as Covid wanes across the country, with infections down by a third in a week.
In March last year, NHS England told hospitals to open up after the Telegraph revealed that more than a quarter of trusts had suspended visits completely. Ruth May, the Chief Nursing Officer, said a month later that no patient should have to attend a hospital appointment alone.
However, of the 125 acute hospital trusts analysed by the Telegraph this week, 88 still had some form of restrictions in place. The most common was limiting visits to one hour, as well as restrictions on how many family members could visit mothers and newborns.
At the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, maternity wards are restricted to one person per bedside at any one time, meaning new parents and grandparents cannot visit the mother and baby at the same time. The trust also banned visits on its planned surgical wards.
Similarly, the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust only allows one birthing partner and one other visitor to see mother and baby at any one time. The hospital also only allows families to visit inpatients for one hour per day.
After being approached by the Telegraph, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust said on Friday night that as of Monday it will revert to “pre-pandemic visiting rules” and allow two visitors per bedspace across maternity wards.
Patients undergoing planned surgery will be permitted one visitor, but they must complete a lateral flow test first.
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‘Patients undergoing planned surgery will be permitted one visitor, but they must complete a lateral flow test first.’
And join the dots:
‘A Conservative health minister has a substantial financial stake in a private health screening and Covid testing firm’
‘Nick Markham, a businessman who was given a peerage under Liz Truss and appointed to the health department, owns about 30% of Cignpost Investments and has done so throughout his first four months in the job.’
‘Cignpost did not win any government contracts during the pandemic but it expanded its business as a result of the policy of requiring people to test regularly and the move from free to paid-for testing.’
Rowena Mason 23 Jan 23
‘Democratic’ crony socialist fascism in action.
What a shower! What an utter disgrace!
I wouldn’t expect much support from any MPs either. Look where this guy’s loyalties lie;
https://odysee.com/@togetherdeclaration:a/davos-or-westminster-starmer-davos:1
There goes the NHS..where evidence-based practice goes to die.
I think that the demise of the NHS is planned to enable the introduction of healthcare via AI. Totally destroy the trust in human medics, nurses & other healthcare practitioners to enable the cabal to provide the ‘solution’ to the manufactured problem.
The NHS is not about to have a damascene conversion regarding the Rona.
Unfortunately, some hospital staff see visitors as an inconvenience and they were barely tolerated prior to the plandemic. The draconian rules brought in suited many staff – no watchful eyes scrutinising what was going on – or not going on. No queries or remonstrations from upset relatives or visitors, enquiring why adequate care was not delivered yet again. Seeing meal trays and drinks out of reach on bedside tables and the patients looking disheveled. Visitors having to seek out staff to find out what was / is going on, because the patient doesn’t know. Lots of patients have to rely on their relatives and visitors to act as their advocate and support in the face of sometimes clinical and nursing indifference.
There are some good staff but there also very poor staff. The staff aren’t ‘angels’ – they come from the people pool called the general public and reflect the qualities of the general public. The general public consists of fine, decent people but also some downright thoroughly unpleasant individuals. They work side by side in every organisation and business.
Restricted visiting was allegedly brought in to minimise infection risks – the infamous nosocomial infections. The introduction of the restricted visiting policy was a very sad day for the the patients, as they lost that necessary familial link, emotional and spiritual support when they are / were at their most vulnerable and at the mercy of strangers. The policy was / is detrimental to the relatives too, as they need to feel they are doing something, being involved in the care and well-being of their loved ones. Holding hands, sometimes just sitting quietly or listening, helping to allay fears in a strange, alien environment. Just being there for someone.
Unfortunately, no one can rely on the NHS anymore. It has lost its purpose. It has lost its soul.
Precisely this.
It suits them not to have any relatives asking questions.
Vernon Coleman alleges that bed blockers are being quietly done in:
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/drvernon-coleman-murdered-for-her
“It has lost its soul” is probably the best recent summing up of the NHS I’ve seen. It tries to function, but there’s no soul left to care, with the left thinking soul can be replaced by money. What fools they are.
My opticians is still imposing face masks. I’ve not had my eyes tested in three years now. I’ll go when they lift the rule, which is being imposed by our local NHS trust.
Mine too. Went through the farce of upping and downing a pointless paper mask during the procedure – at the optician’s request, I might add – because it fogged up the lenses and retinal scanner! I did point out the various breaches in ‘sterile field’ but it fell on totally captured ears.
Just show them the disclaimer on the side of the box, that they don’t stop coronavirus.
I think Vision Express is mask free
I shopped around locally until I found a small independent place
I found one (1st one I tried and was an indepe) who accept me without a mask as exempt.
I hadn’t had my eyes tested for 13 years until I went in October 21! (I was down to one pair of glasses with a 20 year-old prescription following accidental destruction of my most recent pair)
The camp receptionist challenged me twice, but the optician and saleswoman were fine.
My distance vision had hardly changed but I was pleased to no longer need to use a magnifying glass.
They made it a big and creepy part of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and even the next monarch is going to make it part of his coronation somehow. This is absurd on many levels. For one thing if such an entity is so heavily promoted by the establishment then it is the establishment. And if you look at where all the money is being siphoned off too it makes even more sense. They just looked at what the plebs worshipped and decided to big it up in their own way.
And to add to it all, the EU has granted permission to include ground up crickets in food. No labelling required. Locust double cheeseburger is on the horizon!!
Don’t. Just, seriously, don’t.
Lets face it if you look at Britain over the last 150 years it was never a place where we were allowed to be ourselves. They have just changed the camouflage. It doesn’t matter because even given all the sheep the true consciousness of this country is arising. Just look at the genius of the English language and the sinister forces that it has held in check. Never forget that we have a great gift. The real people who care about these islands will find a way of getting together no matter what.
I do hope your final sentence is correct.
In the dystopian future, there will be the dwellers in the smart cities – the rich who will own everything and the slave workforce who will own nothing and ‘be happy’. Everyone else will have to scrape by outside the cities, which is where I’ll probably live out my last days. If people ask me about where my loyalty lies, I go back to something Roger Scruton said very well in ‘England: An Elegy.’ My loyalty is to The Land, not the dispiritingly designed, soul sucking buildings that make up much of the ‘Yoo-Kay’!
And what exactly has Boris Johnson been up to? Glad you asked. Turns out he was spotted schmoozing in Davos, but wasn’t overly pleased with being spotted by Sky News, then he went to Ukraine to brown-nose Zelenskyyy, but I couldn’t watch all of that video because it made me want to hurl.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/wheres-boris
Yes, I’ve watched this. The UK is on its arse and that treasonous t#at is promising Zelensky “to do whatever I can to help.”
An awful, awful excuse for a human being who doesn’t give a sod about the people of this country.
Just another politician showing where their loyalties lie. I mean 99.999% of them are WEF ( or at least apologists ) muppets for starters. ”Penetrated the cabinets”?? I’ll flaming say so. These spanners have been multiplying like rabbits!
Being ill and in hospital is unpleasant- a familiar face can make a world of difference
Despicable
I do think being a callous, cold-hearted, evidence-denying git is a prerequisite for getting a job as a hospital manager. It really is a case of ”follow the guidelines that I’ve plucked out of my arse” as opposed to ”follow the latest data and adhere to your training in the principles of evidence-based practice, with particular emphasis on doing no harm”. Gits!
I know I should have broken the law to visit mum in her last two weeks. I was weak
The single most barbaric inhumane practise by the so-called caring NHS.
Him: You’ve lost a lot of weight!
Her: you’ve regrown lots of hair!
Yes, I remember when children weren’t allowed to visit inpatients. I remember being lifted up to wave to my uncle through the window of a ground floor ward.
I do think it must be exhausting to constantly have visitors and I can understand the staff getting fed up with visitors too. It all depends on the type of of ward. I can see virtue in limiting visitors and visiting hours.
On those hospital bureaucrats still insisting on mask-wearing, just show them the side of the mask boxes, where it says they DON’T stop the coronavirus.
Just smile at the jobsworth and say “I’m exempt”. It really does their head in to realise you are probably lying and they can’t do a thing about it.
I presume that those hospitals that have insisted on masks will have clear evidence that their infection rates are lower than those which have dispensed with masks.