It’s been revealed that hospital patients are being denied cherished visits from their loved ones by NHS institutions using obsolete COVID restrictions.
Data reveals 70 per cent of trusts are still implementing rules dating back to the COVID lockdowns, despite NHS hospitals being told to open up last March.
A newspaper outlet reported that most premises are still limiting visitors to just two at a time, with some reunions trimmed to just one hour.
A recent report by the Care Quality Commission revealed that over half of pregnant women were denied the support of their partner while giving birth last year, despite the end of COVID restrictions.
The restrictions are being implemented across inpatient wards, as well as accident and emergency departments, outpatient clinics and maternity wards.
Health Secretary Steve Barclay has held back on imposing any new guidance on visiting regulations, despite pressure from campaigners to end lockdown-era guidelines. A source close to Steve Barclay claims he wants to allow frontline NHS workers to make their own conclusions on visiting practices in their hospitals.
Labour Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it wasn’t good enough for Steve Barclay to stand idly by.
After a resurgence towards the end of last year, COVID is once again on the wane, with the latest figures showing infections down by a third in the week leading to January 20.
During the darkest days of the pandemic, visits from family and friends were forbidden completely to lessen the spread of the virus, leading many people to say their last goodbyes to their loved ones through agonising phone calls.
After it was revealed that more than a quarter of trusts still suspended visits in March last year, the NHS instructed hospitals to open up once again.
Chief nursing officer Ruth May repeated the message a month later, telling trusts no patient should have to attend a hospital appointment unaided, but of the 125 acute hospital trusts examined by a newspaper outlet, 88 still set curbs on visitors.
The most common restriction was limiting visits to one hour, as well as restricting family members who could visit mothers and newborns.
At Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SaSH), maternity wards permit just one visitor at a bedside at any time, meaning families must take turns.
SaSH said it’s updating some of its visitor rules, reverting to pre-pandemic visiting regulations.
It appears that now the NHS isn’t run for the benefit of their patients, and they seem to be loving the control they have over people, and only recently a study was released, noting that of 260 hand sanitiser products, an independent lab discovered unsafe levels of benzene and other chemical substances in 21 hand sanitisers from 15 brands.
Gels, manual pump spray bottles, and other types of products were tested by Valisure after crowdsourcing funds for toxic contamination analysis.
Bottles shaped like Baby Yoda and alongside the brand Star Wars Mandalorian had dangerous levels of the toxin and could be bought on Amazon.
After Valisure’s results were published, the Walt Disney Company announced its own investigation and asked its manufacturer Best Brands to discontinue production until they knew more.
The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have determined that benzene, a chemical typically used by the rubber industry and oil refineries, can cause cancer in humans, usually, blood disorders like Leukemia. Moreover, inhaling high concentrations of benzene can cause side effects in the nervous system (like seizures).
I actually didn’t go along with all the lockdown practices, and I definitely wouldn’t go along with them now. I went about my business as normal while everyone else was panicking. I did test myself from time to time but that was only because I have a friend whose immune suppressed, and didn’t want to pass anything on to her if I was sick, but that was it.
I came down with COVID way before it was even publicised. I came down with a vicious cough in November, which carried on till January and then it went away. I didn’t feel unwell – the cough was a pain in the butt, but apart from that I felt good. No fever, no loss of taste or smell, just a cough which in the end bruised my throat because of all the coughing.
I’d never had anything like this before so went to see my doctor who told me there was an extremely bad virus going about, that was before it was all publicised – so how long had this actually been going on before we were all informed?
I’m not denying that thousands of people got extremely ill and died though!
Most GPs are only doing phone appointments still, and we hardly ever see a patient unless they actually have to, but we must get used to this because the way we used to do things is now in the past and there’s no going back – welcome to the new world!
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