Moving NHS staff out of their homes, to make room for people needing quarantine.

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AIBU or is this extremely unfair on the staff, to be moved to hotels. I lived in Hospital accommodation when I was newly qualified, and it was definitely my home. Surely they'd have been better to requisition a hotel for the quarantined people.

The report i saw (admittedly earlier today) said it was vacant staff accommodation bejngnput to use.

The problem is that would need to find a hotel with no rooms booked for quarantine.....

The BBC said that staff had to be moved out first.

They haven't moved anyone. It's an old accommodation block that isn't currently used

i think the accommodation block was vacant anyway.

Are they actually doing that though? A lot of hospital accommodation is used by visiting doctors/students.

YABU. It belongs to they NHS and they need it.

Personally I wouldn’t mind.

Staff accommodation for quarantine makes more sense than requisitioning a hotel as they can still operate as hotels

Hopefully it is only vacant accommodation, but if not, I do think it’s an acceptable solution

Not hospital staff, but I have lived in staff accommodation and had to move to a hotel
When there was an issue 🤷🏻‍♀️

I read that it was a former student accommodation block in the grounds of Arrowe Park Hospital. Not seen anything about staff being moved out.

It seems more odd to move the people quite a distance from the base at BN to the accommodation block.

The accommodation itself reportedly needed to be readied plumbing wise etc beforehand, which suggests underuse even if there were a few residents.

In any case, extraordinary events demand extraordinary measures.

Hopefully it was an empty block - although I would find that hard to believe. Hospitals don’t tend to have empty accommodation blocks. If they have actually moved staff out then that is shit, a lot of those staff wouldn’t have anywhere else to go. When I was in my nursing flat it was literally the roof over my head, I would have been homeless otherwise.
Those saying it’s fine and necessary how about you vacate your home for these people?

It is currently used, mainly by people doing night shifts etc but I think some people may live there longer term. I have a friend who's on nights there this week and has been kicked out.

It is being used - thecstaff are being put up in hotels LBC are saying.

This is just crazy. Rent paying staff who have been in these "homes" for years having to move out to hotels with a couple of hours notice.
The staff have been sent to hotels.
Since the people under quarantine won't be using the Hospital or any of the Arrowe Parke staff at all, then why do they need to be in the Hospital grounds or accommodations. Why couldn't they have put these poor people up in a hotel, book one out in Liverpool near the hospital they will actually go to if they get sick.

And they absolutely HAVE moved people.

Why couldn't they have put these poor people up in a hotel, book one out in Liverpool near the hospital they will actually go to if they get sick.

If you owned a hotel would you be prepared to accommodate them?

I sure as hell wouldn't be so NHS accommodation is more appropriate, though people shouldn't be expected to move out to make room for them. If I was one of the people expected to move out I'd want a cast iron guarantee of a thorough deep clean afterwards.

Because you can leave a hotel. Have you seen the fencing that’s going up. It doesn’t look like a hotel so much as a very secure unit.

Disgusting. Perhaps these staff should all ring in sick.

You can leave the nurses quarters as well. And they are not set up as sterile or secure centres.

There was no reason why these people needed to be put up in hospital grounds when this isn't even the hospital they will be treated in!

You can’t quarantine people in a public hotel. What a ridiculous suggestion.

"If I was one of the people expected to move out I'd want a cast iron guarantee of a thorough deep clean afterwards."

Which is one of the issues with a hotel. The cleaning wouldn't be practical. The hotel staff would have to be suspended and NHS Staff brought in. Liverpool isn't that close to Arrow park. It would have to be somewhere on the Wirral.

As said, you wouldn't be able to keep people in and Liverpool wouldn't cope with an outbreak. We've been hit the hardest by cuts and so have our emergency services. We have international visitors in vast numbers, especially when the football is on.

Ambulances etc would have to be supplied.

Unfortunately this is the best solution.

@ponoka7 people are not and won't be treated at Arrow Park, they will go to Liverpool

I'd said on the other thread that our School of Tropical Medicine would be heavily involved. There is the potential for two floors being used as quarantine wards, but it's the funding and the extra staff needed.

It just isn't there unless people are actually sick.