With immediate effect visiting arrangements on our adult inpatient wards are now returning
With immediate effect visiting arrangements on our adult inpatient wards are now returning to our pre-Christmas visiting arrangements which is one visitor for an hour per day.
Kettering General Hospital is continuing to ask patients, visitors and staff to wear masks to prevent the spread of infections like COVID-19 and flu.
COVID-19 cases at KGH have fallen from 45 on December 30 to 27 on January 5 and the trend appears to be downward.
Kettering General Hospital’s Chief Executive, Deborah Needham, said: “We are monitoring infections every day and feel we have now reached a threshold where we can relax some of the measures we have taken to protect our patients.
“We understand just how important visiting is to patients and how it helps them to recover, and we need to balance this very carefully against the risk of infections being brought into the hospital.”
“Even when visiting does return to normal we will continue to urge all members of the public not to attend hospital to visit loved ones if they have symptoms of colds, flu or COVID-19, as clearly that increases the risk of infections getting into our hospital which is full of vulnerable patients.”
Our hospital remains on critical incident due the high emergency care demand and pressures on discharging patients from hospital.
The hospitals’ infection prevention and control guidance to the public includes:
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Anyone showing any symptoms of COVID-19 or feeling otherwise unwell must not visit.
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Do not visit if a member of your household has tested positive for COVID-19 or flu
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Visitors, parents, guardians, siblings will be asked to wear a surgical facemask to visit our wards – including the Emergency Department
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Symptom /wellness checks will be completed on arrival in our wards
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Please continue to wash your hands regularly before, during, and after, attending hospital and follow staff instructions relevant to the area being attended.
Other actions local people can take to support their hospitals at this difficult time include:
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Please continue to wash your hands regularly before, during, and after, attending hospital and follow staff instructions relevant to the area being attended.
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Only going to A&E where this is absolutely necessary and using alternatives such as GP telephone appointments, pharmacies, Corby Urgent Care Centre or NHS 111.
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Don’t unnecessarily accompany someone to hospital unless your presence is vital for their safety. We have limited socially distanced waiting facilities and cannot allow these to become unnecessarily crowded
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Please attend your appointments on time – but not too much before time. If you arrive too early, you will be making waiting areas more crowded than they need to be.