Coronavirus: guidance on visiting our hospice

In our ongoing attempt to protect our patients, their relatives, hardworking staff, volunteers and the wider community from Coronavirus (COVID-19), while at the same time allowing our patients to spend precious time with their loved ones, we have revised our restrictions on the numbers of visitors each patient can have at any one time.

Rather than having only one named visitor per patient, each of our patients can now have two named adult visitors. Only children (aged under 18) of the patient will be admitted and they must enter the hospice via patio doors directly into their parent’s bedroom. We will also be asking all visitors to the Inpatient Unit to wear their own face covering, which they should bring with them if possible and put on either before entering the Inpatient Unit corridor. The hospice remains open for visitors 24 hours a day. To keep the risk of spread of infection to a minimum, all visitors will be temperature checked on arrival. Anyone with a high temperature signifying illness will not be able to enter the hospice.