Double vaxxed NHS staff don't isolate

[3asAbird]

From Monday 19th if they double vaxxed they can test daily for 10 days.
Surely this risks greater levels of infections In hospitals?

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Obviously, she caught Covid from her patients because the only PPE they had was a blue mask, disposable apron and gloves

This is an actual scandal

@HmmmmmmInteresting

. Obviously, she caught Covid from her patients because the only PPE they had was a blue mask, disposable apron and gloves

This is an actual scandal

Yes. It really is. Only ICU had anything beyond that for PPE. Yet DD and her nurses were tending to an entire ward of Covid patients who were coughing all over them and needed very close personal care, with no more protection from their breath and their phlegm, than a blue mask. The FFP2 mask I wear to Tesco is more protection.

Don't you remember last year when hospital staff had no ppe at all? or they were wearing what resembled a white bin bag liner? Took months for them to be properly kitted out and hospitals rammed with cv cases. The pressure was so immense that the nhs was on the verge of collapse and lots of those retired etc drafted in. At one point school staff were assembling ppe.

At our Trust we used the blue paper mask, plastic pinny and gloves until we had a ward outbreak where we were looking after positive patients. We then broke out our emergency supplies of gowns, FFP3 masks and visors but were told by high up Trust management that we were not allowed this unless we actually had to resuscitate someone. They came and took our supplies away as it was 'not in line with National Guidance' for us to have them. There was a rebellion where staff refused to work with positive patients without proper PPE but probably too little too late 100% of staff and patients got it and it was a living hell.
Staff were blamed for the spread as well. It was suggested we must not have complied well enough with guidance. Very severely dementia patients don't tend to be too good at social distancing.

A study at the local acute Trust has lately been published showing that the FFP3 masks that we were denied but they were allowed despite it being 'against National guidance' do significantly cut the spread.

If we don't do it we will be crippled. We are so short staffed. They have to test negative and have had core symptoms for at least 3 days. If they are tested under 3 days they have to stay home until we hit that mark. I've just done it. I think it's a good thing

I was given the same - blue mask, apron and gloves. I’ve been providing labour care 1:1 for 12.5 hours in that ppe with covid positive women. our delivery rooms are really small and unventilated. And labour in general involves a lot of huffing and puffing, plus all the body fluids that are around. We were only allowed to wear ffp3 masks if the patient was under a GA, and were given incredibly limited supplies.

Im currently pregnant and again, we’ve got a lot of covid positive women coming through labour ward. My manager has told me I still need to see them as normal and I can’t be redeployed anywhere else. Apparently it doesn’t matter as I’m only in my second trimester. It seems mad that last year I’d have been sent home to shield, but now I’m sent in wearing these paper masks and shut in a room for 12 hours

Honestly the whole ppe arrangements are shocking.

Things are worsening in my cousin’s department (she’s a nurse) as they are now all required to wear FFP masks and visors at all times whereas before it was just aprons and blue masks.

They are also all required to do three LFTs a week whereas this has never been in place before.