NHS Restrictions

[Bringithome]

Anyone else find some of restrictions being placed on in hospitals really strange?

I have a male friend and his wife is currently in early labour and in hospital. He is only allowed to visit for a strict 3 hours a day different 3 hours for different visitors. What seems very odd to me though is she is in a private room as is almost every other patient. So surely there is more of a risk of him not being in the hospital the other hours and being out and about than if he was to stay the majority of time in the hospital.

I’ve heard other stories about people being denied chaperones and all sorts.

I love the NHS and feel very lucky to have access to it but just question the logic behind some of these restrictions.

I think this has been in place all through pandemic. A friend of mine booked a private hospital for after delivery of twins as husband was only allowed a 2 hour visit each day, no other visitors were allowed. He was allowed at the delivery but had to wait outside until shortly before she gave birth.

I completely question the logic and I work for the NHS. DH currently an inpatient since 29 December. One person on his bay developed Covid on 3 Jan and they were all placed in automatic lockdown for 14 days - DH not even allowed to use the bathroom, just given a bed pan and told to stay in his bed space for two weeks. He asked to be discharged and they let him walk off the ward post-surgery by himself - I found him wandering the hospital I work in in a distressed state. I cannot understand the logic of locking someone down for 14 days when in the 'real world' it's now 7, and then letting them wander around the hospital once they're no longer their problem!

He had to be readmitted last night, was placed in a side room and then once he tested negative placed on a different ward and on a different bay, which again defeats the object of the original 14 day lockdown! I simply don't understand the rules...

Logic escapes me. His partner has now moved for pre-delivery in a ward of 4 women and he is now allowed to go all day. So now they can be in a room with potentially 8 others but he couldn’t be on his own with her. The mind boggles.

So many of these things defy logic, many of the hospital rules included.

(You didn't have to include the disclaimer at the end by the way. It's not compulsory to declare you love the NHS. I'm really really not having a go at you, but it's alarming the growing number of people who feel they have to profess love and thanks at every turn in case they are judged. We are allowed to criticise the way it is run)