If you visit someone at end of life with Covid...

[Kenworthington]

And you are fully ppe’d up to the max and all precautions taken, do you have to self isolate afterwards? I’ve tried looking this up but can’t find any guidance.

Yes
You'll have to wear ppe and are told to self isolate.
In my trust those are the guidelines anyway.

Ugh I thought that would be the case. So I get to see my mother die and then have to be on my own self isolating?

Is only one person allowed by the bed? Could you not bubble up with the other person -if allowed more than one?
Sorry you are going thru this

I thought you could not visit someone in hospital with Covid, even at the end of their life. I thought you could only communicate by video call.

Different trusts have different rules.

@Kenworthington

Ugh I thought that would be the case. So I get to see my mother die and then have to be on my own self isolating?

Possibly. And yes it's shit, and so many people are having to walk this path

I’m sorry you are going through this. My mum recently died of covid, I was able to visit her in hospital at the end and I was told by the dr that as I was in full Ppe I did not have to isolate after, just as hospital staff looking after Covid patients don’t have to. So maybe it’s worth you asking them.
Sending you support x

Ah that’s so promising @MissPMA I can’t imagine a worse time to be alone. So sorry you are going through it too

In my trust in icu you do have to self isolate, yes. But this is in ITU where relatives can't have the full PPE as they aren't fit tested. A colleague lost a relative and was able to avoid self isolating as they were fit tested. On the wards im actually not 100% sure.

This is in a care home setting if that makes a difference?

@Kenworthington I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Is there anyone that could isolate with you?

@Whatelsecouldibecalled dh could I suppose but then we have two kids at home too and he’d also need to go and pick up our other son who lives away. So I guess not really. I suppose we could isolate as a household

Sorry to hear this, you need to ask the ward as different trusts have different policies.

We often don't given visitors masks that are as good as ours (sometimes they get the standard surgical masks rather than FFP2 on some wards now - start of covid most of us just wore standard surgical masks). The key thing is staff are trained in how not to contaminate themselves, we also don't go very close to covid patients if we can help it, very different from if it is your loved one.

I am very sorry you are in this situation - my mum died in December, her cancer spread in an unexpected way. I am so glad I was with her for her last three days, it’s so very hard but I am glad she didn’t die alone.

I’m sorry you are going through this

I'm community NHS and if we're in PPE we don't need to (can't!) isolate having seen positive patients - we'd rapidly run out of staff if that were the case! Don't see why it would be different for you but there are myriad different regulations even within the same area so it's difficult to know.

So sorry to hear about your mum