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.

@lyralalala there are people whose job it is to plan for exactly this. They will have contingency plans for different types of disease/different numbers of people/different levels of contagiousness/you name it.

One of my friends is in almost exactly this sort of work (but in his case, not infectious disease) and says he spends every day at work formulating plans that will probably never (he hopes) need to be used.
It's a weird job in that sense. But he does know that if the unthinkable kicks off, without his and his colleagues' plans, we'd all be in the shit.

So yes, it's bizarre that people think that this plan was drafted on the back of a crisp packet yesterday, with the intention of pissing off health workers and keeping these people away from the Tory voting SouthEast.

FFS Sara you really are a fun sponge

Surely it makes more sense to use an empty accommodation block than to put potentially infected people in a hotel? They've got to go somewhere.

FFS Sara you really are a fun sponge

@TSSDNCOP, it's a gift.

I suggest if anybody’s to blame blame the chief executive’s of the hospital for agreeing to the plan. Does anyone know for instance if it’s written into the housing contracts that in the case of an unprecedented emergency, people can be rehoused?

Come on then , all the people on here who think they know better than everyone, where would you send these poor people ?

They need to be near a fucking tropical diseases hospital that has the capacity to look after them ?

I do think they should’ve been quarantined in China. I suppose if the government had come out and said that Mumsnet would be full of posts about how the torys don’t care about anyone. How many Brits live and work in China? How many people are going to be evacuated if for instance Beijing shuts down

Evil I think if people need to be repatriated then that’s what we do.

And apparently Running’s relative has shared their tenancy agreeement.

It seems like an odd plan

I just always assumed if that sort of thing would happen then you'd be held on a military base because of the security aspect

I've just realised though that I don't know why I thought that! It's not like they have stacks of empty accommodation blocks either

Can I just say it's Arrowe Park.

They're being put up in a hotel

I'm an nhs worker - I'd be happy with thar

The premier inn @MozzchopsThirty ?

That’s it though Lyra. One of the things that’s made me is China knocking up 2 hospitals in a week. I wondered if we could do that if needed. Then I thought, somewhere there are people like sara’s friend that do nothing BUT plan this stuff.

Does anyone know how finished the big new empty hospital in Liverpool is?

They should have been kept in baracks at brize!

And done what with the service men and women who live in them? It's wrong that the NHS staff have been moved out, but the NHS know how to do the deep and specialist cleaning the RAF don't.

Does anyone know how finished the big new empty hospital in Liverpool is?

It's covered in partly unsafe cladding for a start.

Not sure about the rest of the bits Carillion didn't finish

Does anyone know how finished the big new empty hospital in Liverpool is?

The Clatterbridge build is almost complete. The new Royal will not be ready for 2 years.

Mozzchops you’d be happy to leave your home to let a number of strangers stay in it?

If no-one has the virus, they wont need to do a deep clean :)

save don’t be fucking silly. On MN if a electrician uses your downstairs loo you have a new one fitted ground up.

who in their right mind thinks of staff accommodations as "their home" it's temporary and conditional. and yes i've staying in such accommodations and not at all surprised their using these.

Am I the only one who thinks it's ok to use NHS accommodation for these people?
Com on! So you have to be in quarantine for around 10days... it needs to be somewhere relatively isolated & easily controlled. That includes waste! The people who have access need to be health care workers and know to control the spread of illnesses. AND you want the quarantined to have some form of dignity...
I would happily give up my accommodation for a hotel room - if it's to contain the disease. In the grand scheme of things it's really nothing.

I haven't rtft, so not sure if it has been covered but does anyone know why the bus driver didn't wear protective gear?

Dear god no. Some of the nhs staff turfed out were not in temporary accommodation. It was there home.

Tell you what, anyone on here in rented accommodation, let’s throw you out and house them. It’s only fair.

He speaks to people who still work in the NHS, as he does, and few are amused

Where did anyone say they were amused? I still speak to people who work in the NHS and have relatives working in the NHS. No one finds it funny, but most understand that it’s the lesser of two evils. They need urgent accommodation for people who may pose a risk to the public. They don’t have time to fanny about fixing up empty buildings, Have you any better suggestions that are actually realistic or do you just want to shout about how unfair it is?

yeah lets fuck over the childless/childfree ones again

So, shall we move out the children too? 🙄

All the people on this thread saying it's somewhere that can be easily isolated etc, you do realise that Arrowe Park Hospital is in the middle of a densely populated area, on a relatively small site, with a maternity ward in close proximity. They're not in an isolated block- it has a door which opens into a ward of the main hospital!