DH works for the NHS. Very patient facing, community work, but not medical (so not a doctor or nurse). At the moment he is able to do everything from home, managing the team and speaking to patients over the phone. But he is going to be redeployed soon. This will be in two phases. Phase two will be onto the COVID wards, but my question is about phase one.
Very soon, he will be redeployed to work on the wards one or two days a week - essentially this is to look after the acute patients during the phase before they would usually come under his care. This allows the medics to go to the COVID wards. He says the ward has been very isolated from any Covid areas, cleaned constantly and PPE provision is good. He says it is possibly safer than going to a supermarket. His plan is to strip at the front door, put clothes into wash and him shower immediately. I’m quite anxious about this, but know him going onto the wards is the right thing to do and he is a very cautious person, so I trust his judgement.
My question is (if you made it this far, thank you!), is there anything else we can do to protect ourselves while he works on the non-covid wards?
For phase two of redeployment to the COVID wards, he wants to look into staying elsewhere.