Well, isn't this getting silly!

[BleddyHell]

So today rules for NHS staff have been updated...if we get pinged by track and trace, or one of our household tests positive, we must still go to work but have to isolate at home when not at work. I think somebody has lost the bloody plot, I really do.

Seriously? They could fuck off with that if I was NHS staff.

Really?

That reminds me of the early days of all of this when people were advocating for keyworker staff (before everyone was one) to do similar all the time- "leave your home only for work purposes or to do errands for others!"

That makes no sense at all… it must be true.

Yeah I wouldn't be doing that!

Eh? Really?
I saw the bit about if isolating would cause service disruption PCR and daily lateral flows……missed the rest?
So we can work but isolate the rest of the time?!

If all NHS staff have to isolate if pinged the there'll be no staff in by mid August.

I mean I don't disagree about if pinged by the app, but if a member of the household tests positive?

@GreatBigBeautifulTommorow yep, 100% true. Absolutely ridiculous 🙄

Yeah, no. Sod that.

Its what they did with the test schools. My dc are at a test school. If they tested positive they had to go home and isolate. If they were a close contact they could stay at school subject to testing every couple of days at school and isolating out of school hours.

It worked well to keep them all at school for the most part. Clearly lots still tested positive though mainly because loads didn’t follow the rules to isolate at home outside of school hours.

How does that work out for community psychiatric nurses?!

So you can risk taking it into a healthcare setting where you'll likely be close contact with ill people but not shop ag distance in a mask at your local Tesco? 🤔🤯

I can understand daily testing and working if negative but surely if that's the case you can go anywhere for 24 hours until the next test?

@GoWalkabout I don't agree with it AT ALL. As an ITU nurse I'm caring for the sickest of the sick, people who couldn't fend off even the most trivial of illnesses that wouldn't touch most people, I would be devastated if I transmitted covid to one of my patients when I should have been isolating

so you can't even nip into tesco or a petrol station on way to work then?

@Annoyedandirritated

How does that work out for community psychiatric nurses?!

That is a good point.

None of this makes sense anymore.

I wonder what this policy will do for NHS patients' odds of catching covid in hospital?

@BleddyHell just had a read of the Gov guidance.
I feel like I’m living in a parallel universe.

Is this the NHS as a whole or a particular Trust?

What if they take public transport so many hospitals lack parking and strict criteria for parking permits.

@Reallybadidea I'm guessing thus is NHS wide, there's absolute hell up on nursing and NHS Facebook pages

@Reallybadidea NHS. New Guidance on gov uk.
Don’t know how to link

The children where I work have been doing this if they are close contacts. Allowed in to school with daily testing, but have to isolate the rest of the time.

@HasaDigaEebowai

Its what they did with the test schools. My dc are at a test school. If they tested positive they had to go home and isolate. If they were a close contact they could stay at school subject to testing every couple of days at school and isolating out of school hours.

It worked well to keep them all at school for the most part. Clearly lots still tested positive though mainly because loads didn’t follow the rules to isolate at home outside of school hours.

I don't understand the conclusion that loads still testing positive was because they didn't isolate at home, surely it's more likely they transmitted it between themselves at school

Meant to add- Seems very strange when you're dealing with ill people!