Internal Reference Number: FOI_7316
Date Request Received: 20/07/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 24/07/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Visitation policies
Request Category: Political Parties
| Question Number 1: Did your Trust alter or update its visitor policy in response to Covid-19, yes or no? a. If yes, what changes were introduced? b. If yes, are any of those policies still in place? i. If yes, which of those policies are still in place? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Yes our visiting policy was altered in response to Covid and re-evaluated regularly throughout the pandemic: a) Visiting was restricted in line with national guidance b) No returned to normal visiting | |
| Question Number 2: Does the Trust currently have any visitation policies that: a. Would prevent a patient from receiving a visitor? i. If yes, in what wards or circumstances does this apply? ii. If yes, were these restrictions in place before March 2020? b. Set a restriction on the number of different people able to visit a patient during their stay i. If yes, in what wards or circumstances would the number of different people visiting a patient be restricted? ii. If yes, how many different people do these restrictions permit as visitors? iii. If yes, were these restrictions in place before March 2020? | |
| Answer To Question 2: a i) Risk assessment approach to visiting if a patient has diarrhoea and vomiting or respiratory illness - visitor guidance ii) Yes for diarrhoea and vomiting and flu b) Yes advise maximum of 2 people at a time i) General approach of 2 per bay but discretion of ward team based on persons circumstances ii) 2 iii) No | |
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