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

[Toddlerteaplease]

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.

Sorry, just saw “threat of arrest”. Guess that’d do it.

According to the BBC there are staff who have lived there for 11 years and have been moved into local hotels. It does seem odd. Surely it would have been cheaper to rent a floor in a hotel for the quarantined people.

I think they should have quarantined them in China. I don't see the point of flying them over here, just to fly them back to the same situation in 2 weeks, whilst potentially putting the whole of the UK at risk. What is the point of all this exactly? Even if they're all fine and nothing happens, it's making a lot of people worry unnecessarily.

It is absolutely that attitude that is the problem savethecat. As if they don’t matter at all

Yep You can see it on these threads.

@TSSDNCOP The one time I didn’t answer (2am, I was ill and fast asleep) the door got battered by a guy from the health board and two very pissed off police officers (not pissed off me, just in general)

Well they were quarantined in China, given Wuhan is a quarantine zone.

The point is they’re British citizens so we went in and got them. They have nothing, by the sounds, they had very little notice to evacuate.

I’m sorry, really, for the temporarily displaced NHS staff, but these people were in absolutely dire straits.

And Helena seriously you need to get a grip.

Crikey lyra! That’s bad. But good the system works!

They could have found a hotel in China for them. That would have made the most sense.

I didn't know NHS had accommodation for families & couples. Or any accommodation any more for staff, really.

I live on the Wirral, 5 minutes away from APH and am not very impressed at the idea of the bus drivers potentially being exposed to this virus, going home and asked to stay in for 10 days - what if they have children who pick it up and then go to school?

Who the fuck are “they”? No one can get into Wuhan. If you can, as British citizens were able, you get the fuck out. No ones calling bloody Booking.com they weren’t safe quarantined in their own homes.

News reports suggest most of the residence is unoccupied, and it’s these flats that will actually be used.

You're going to ruin everyone's fury there, spoilsport.

How ridiculous for posters to think that these quarantined people will be using long term residents' belongings. Seriously, there seems to be a brainlessness virus going around MN right now.

You would think we (the UK as a country I mean) would have a plan for something like this

When I lived near Carstairs everyone was told what they should do if the siren went off. There was a major contingency plan

You’d think there would be a “if we need to quarantine 100 people this is the plan... if we need to quarantine 500 people this is the plan...”

I have to wonder how much the cutbacks of military bases, social housing and the likes has impacted on plans to put people somewhere if needed

Is there much staff accommodation these days ,?they got did of nurses accommodation years ago at the hospital i. worked at ,still had the Dr,s Mess however 🙄

They wont be using their belongings. They had them piled into cars and moving vans this morning.

Lyra I firmly believe there are people that have careers planning exactly this stuff. I wouldn’t even be surprised that in a tenancy agreement for this block there wasn’t a clause that said “In the event...”

You aren’t going to get any hotel owners agree to using their property for quarantine....either here or in China!!

Maid service? Meals? Who is going to carry on doing that job?

@Fred578 They won’t be allowed to be quarantined with other people coming and going

@TSSDNCOP It was really annoying at the time as I just wanted to sleep. Particularly as I knew as an asthmatic there was a chance I’d end up in hospital, but afterwards it was good to see the system worked

Amusingly (now - not at the time) I was actually quarantined in my sister’s house She was on holiday and I was cat feeding. She had to stay in my house when she got back with my very frazzled DH and my baffled kids as there was still three days of the quarantine left. I didn’t realise when I got the phone call about my test results when they asked where I was and told them why they were so pleased. Once I was better I realised!

The people providing consular assistance deemed a flight out was a better option than ringing the Holiday Inn and sealing off a floor

I firmly believe there are people that have careers planning exactly this stuff. I wouldn’t even be surprised that in a tenancy agreement for this block there wasn’t a clause that said “In the event...”

That’s what I’m wondering

The swine flu plan seemed to kick in really seamlessly so I’d be surprised if things had gone so far down hill in recent years that even that sort of thing is messed up

categorically

You have a copy?