Care Home Visits

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Curious as the whether those with loved ones in CH have had their visits stopped, despite having a pod set-up with the home. My mother's has said no visits due to risk of staff becoming infected when taking visitor tests, and another person I know said their care home has stopped visits due to the government guidelines, but on checking the gov website, they are saying visits are allowed. All very confusing.

I’m still allowed in. One named visitor, once a week, for half an hour. Have to have lateral flow test each time.

Where I work it's end of life visits only.
Please remember that while NHS staff may have had training for this type of thing, your average carer has not. I had a 15 minute zoom session on how to do a lateral flow test.
I hate it that our residents can't see their loved ones, I care for these people and it makes them sad and anxious, especially as they don't understand why in a lot of cases. But I'd also really hate to be more of a risk than I already am, by doing a test incorrectly and unwittingly introducing it to the home. I'm annoyed because there's been so much time to make sure we're trained properly on this, but nothing has been forthcoming.

Thanks, must be just the company policy then. I completely understand why the carers feel they are at risk, but could the test not be done by the person being tested, away from the test, or is it a special method? I can't visit anyway as too far to travel, but really feel for my mum who doesn't understand what's going on.