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.

I'm on the Wirral and all the talk is of politics - Wirral and Merseyside are the last bastions of Labour and will never vote Tory. Boris doesn't want to annoy his voters by quarantining them close to Brize where the plane landed.

It’s weird if they aren’t empty because I know of some completely empty hospital staff accommodation at another hospital. But it was a very short turn around for finding somewhere and I guess partly it will be which hospital trusts responded with information on potential sites?

My impression was that it was used only temporarily by people working nights so no one actually lost their home and they have hotel accommodation instead.

If l were still working as a nurse . l would be more than happy to move for these poor ppl who might have this illness. I think it comes with the territory in my experience, Nurses on the whole are caring & compassionate and l honestly don't think many would mind.

How do night staff get any sleep at all in a busy hotel. Imagine being treated/cared for by someone on night shift who’d had no sleep in the day.

It's not just nurses though, lots of different hospital staff.

Depend on the hotel, I wouldn't mind a fortnight in a nice hotel if everything is being paid for. Someone making my bed, nice towels every day, no cooking. Can I show my solidarity and join them.

@1forsorrow premier inn

And right here on this thread you see how unimportant NHS staff are considered to be. Depressing but hardly a surprise.

This article is reporting that some NHS staff had been living in the accommodation for as long as ten years.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/staff-wirral-hospital-turfed-out-17665498

I think , and this one I am not 100% on, that some of the staff quarters were family quarters so whole families had to leave.

Some of it is only used for staff when they are on call and is not their residence

Hmm they are moving patients 180 miles to the Wirral. North south divide in action.

savethecat I'm a pensioner so even with a cheap premier inn a fortnight would be over £500 without food so a bit out of my budget at the moment. Nice thought though.

If I was one of these nurses whose accommodation had been taken over, I would hope that it would be well cleaned afterwards

Some of the reporting and almost all the comments on the local new websites are horrible. And terribly ill-informed. Like the guy living nearby to the accommodation packing up and taking his family to London for two weeks to avoid catching the virus (from people who don't appear to have it and will be quarantined exactly so they CAN'T pass it on if it turns out that they do)

And right here on this thread you see how unimportant NHS staff are considered to be. Depressing but hardly a surprise.

Nonsense. I worked in the health services for 25yrs, with some incredibly challenging patients. They need the accommodation. They’re not doing it for fun or just to irritate staff.

However I do agree that those in family accommodation should be treated differently. I was thinking more of the nursing type accommodation that we have here in NI.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/staff-wirral-hospital-turfed-out-17665498

sorry - it's already been posted!

If I was one of these nurses whose accommodation had been taken over, I would hope that it would be well cleaned afterwards

I'm sure absolutely NO-ONE has thought about doing that. Y'know, because what do all the doctors and specialists in tropical medicine in the department of health know about anything? I mean, they obviously just stuck a pin in a map and said 'let's dump them here for a fortnight.

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saraclara given what I know about London and the Wirral I reckon he has more chance of coming into contact with someone carrying it in London.

Oh give over TottalyFucked, NHS staff aren’t cannon fodder.

I absolutely am with the view that these poor people need to be put up somewhere and that they are likely very low risk.

My issue is why turf people out of a used accommodation in the hospital grounds of a hospital that they will NOT even be using??????
Why not find an unused/empty facility somewhere else? There was no need for it to be at this hospital or in hospital grounds - no APH staff to be used and they will NOT be treated in the hospital according to the council statements.

Nah saraclara let’s drive them 180 miles to the north to hospitals that are already struggling.

I’m on a doctors’ forum. Yes NHS staff have been turfed out of their rented accommodation. Some of the individuals have posted. Included families and some medium term tenants. A difficult situation but shit for those involved.