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.

They should have been kept in baracks at brize!

Live in nhs staff have always been treated badly. I can remember during my training that the plugs were cut off heaters and the boiler was turned off in the middle of winter during awful cold spells. That was in the 80s but nhs staff are still treated badly.

NHS staff are, let us be honest, very accustomed to be treated unfairly.

My point is that we have been told that Arrowe Park Hospital and it's staff would NOT be used at all. Any sick people will go to Liverpool Hospital (40 mins drive away for those who don't know the area). So why bother using Hospital grounds on the Wirral at all?

savethecat, but the facilities aren't there for people who may not be sick.

Somewhere semi secluded is needed. We've had police numbers cut. It's a weekend. This is best managed as it is being.

@Barbarella1 yes! we had the battery taken out of the CO detector as it kept going off!

This area is not semi secluded. Its right smack bang next to the Hospital and suburbia.

A lot of the complaints seem to be around them being there at all, though.

It is a crisis, as such.

If the staff aren’t going to be out of money, as a result, I don’t see it as a major problem. Hospital accommodation is not a right. These poor people are being kept in quarantine and away from their family members, who are probably worried sick about them. The quarantined people are probably really frightened and suspicious of anyone who so much as sneezes. Dear Gaia, if moving to a hotel is upsetting the staff that much, they need to toughen the fuck up, if they want to work in the health service.

The accommodation will not be as ‘cluttered’ with soft furnishings, deep carpets, etc, as a hotel and will be a lot easier to sterilise. They will also use their own specialist cleaning people. Do you really expect a hotel to hand over accommodation to board a group of potentially infectious people?

You do realise that sometimes people live in hospital accommodation for some time? The longest one such place was my home was 2 years. As you can imagine, I had a lot more stuff in my room than would be true of a hotel room!

savethecat, it is compared to any hotel in Liverpool. Or the Royal Liverpool. If they got sent to Liverpool, they wouldn't keep the situation under control.

I don't know how much they pay per month now. I'm sure it's subsidised to some extent.

As you can imagine, I had a lot more stuff in my room than would be true of a hotel room!

Yes, YOUR stuff, not property of the trust. They’re not concerned about that and if asked to move out, you’ll be expected to take that with you. The bare bones of the room will still be easier to clean, than a hotel room.

The crazy thing is that there is an empty, brand new, almost completely hospital sitting empty in Liverpool that has been empty since Carillion went bust

You'd have to hope energy and money is being spent in finding ways to make buildings like that servicable in case we keep needing spaces for people

That said, who the hell would staff it I have no idea

It's also madness that the people on the buses will be quarantined at the Arrowe Park for 14 days, but the bus drivers have to self-quarantine at home for 10 days... How does that work if there's a 14 day incubation period?

They 100% have moved people out, they were told at 5pm last night to pack up. Some hotel rooms were available. These people are shift workers and may have lived in there for years. Ridiculous.

The hospital accommodations are carpeted and like a normal room, not clinical.

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

This.

Hospital accommodation is not a right.

You do realise that they don't get it for free don't you?

Your correct TottalyFucked, god forbid hospital staff are treated like human beings that actually matter and are providing essential services. Not a right at all.

This disgraceful attitude towards frond line staff is one of the reasons I jumped ship.

I wonder if they will be going back to their homes after the 2 weeks. I imagine so...how odd to have had someone there.

Why is the quarantine taking place on the Wirral at all?! Seems mad to bus them all up!

The wirral is really not highly populated
And it’s close to the Liverpool tropical diseases hospital.
Make sense to me.
I live a mile away and am totally unconcerned from an infectious point of view. Not sure about the NHS staff and it’s treatment however !

Disgraceful attitude on here about hospital staff.

It's because of 2 reasons

1. the actual hospital they will be treated at, if needed, is in Liverpool (40 mins away) and they would prefer them to be away from the city centre
2. geographically the wirral can be cut off if required.

Apparently, there have been decontamination centres and such like set up south wirral

I don’t see why hospital staff accommodation would have any less soft furnishings than a hotel room.

You’d hope they’ll be thoroughly deep cleaned before the staff go back.