Social distancing and work (nhs admin)

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I can stay at home at the weekends and during the evenings but I work in the nhs as admin, face to face with staff, visitors and patients. I have no underlying medical conditions and I cannot do my job from home.
I’m wondering if it would be reasonable to ask to reduce my hours while this is all going on therefore reducing the amount of time I’m in contact with people. I’m thinking that all admin staff could probably do the important parts of their job and leave the less important bits to pile up for later in the year. I’d be happy to work extra hours to make up the time later to do this.
What do others think? Any nhs admin staff feel the same?

I'm A&E admin, no way we could for obvious reasons, I am worried though. Everything has changed and now we are being asked to work in areas deemed more at risk, wearing scrubs and mask. Very surreal, you can ask but I guess it depends on whether the plan or need to redeploy you depending on your role. You can ask!

Gosh I don't work in the NHS but my understanding that's it's all hand on deck for now and with the influx they are expecting they are going to need everything member they can , not just those on front line services. I can only imagine it would go down incredibly badly with your bosses to even ask right now.

I suggest you ask your line manager - they might so say no but it's worth exploring as we're all trying to find ways to reduce the risks (work in HR in a hospital, we're being asked this a lot!) Depends on the culture/flexibility of your employer but in my hospital we're trying very hard to be sympathetic to staff concerns balanced with needing to run a service. We need everyone's good will at the moment too.

It wouldn't go down well. I am also an admin worker in a non clinical setting within a large hospital, and fully expecting to be re-deployed within the next 3-4 weeks to support how I can.

The more we do, the more time the clinical staff can spend with patients.