COVID-19 Information
Date: 10/03/2025
Visiting our home
We have adopted the government stance of a “living with Covid” due to the fewer formally diagnosed cases of Covid in the UK. Visiting is back to normal and there is no need to pre-book visits. As always, we remain vigilant of possible infections caused by infection transmission within the Home or transmission by visitors coming to the Home and so we do ask that you do not visit if you are feeling unwell, particularly if you have symptoms of a chest infection or a gastro-intestinal illness. We are wary that although Covid has waned, other infections have been prevalent in the UK, particularly Norovirus and Influenza.
We do ask for assistance from visitors if a Home goes into an outbreak situation as we will need to follow our outbreak strategy and gain Health Protection advice. This means that key procedures aimed at quelling infections will need to be put into place promptly and effectively. Our focus, as always, is the protection of our residents, staff and indeed visitors from infections.
You will be informed of any new procedures as a result of an outbreak situation and we ask that you work with us and Health Protection to help curb infections in our Care Home.
Admissions
From the onset of Covid, we adopted a policy that no resident would be admitted to our Care Homes unless they had been swabbed as negative for Covid. We believe that this strategy quelled the number of outbreaks in our Care Homes. Now, with less testing for Covid being undertaken, we do not deem a negative Covid swab a condition for admission but we remain vigilant of Covid and other chest infections.
We always try to prevent infections entering our Care Homes and we view admissions and visiting as two key areas of risk which require careful monitoring and consideration. We will therefore not admit to our Homes anyone showing symptoms of a severe chest infection until we are confident that such a chest infection has been successfully treated. Our residents remain our priority.
