{"id":54936,"date":"2022-02-04T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/?p=54936"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:55:20","slug":"care-home-visitors-asked-to-make-arrangements-before-they-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/care-home-visitors-asked-to-make-arrangements-before-they-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Care home visitors asked to make arrangements before they visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Around half of the 317 care homes in Devon currently have two or more linked cases of coronavirus among staff and residents<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Care homes are working hard to manage infection, mitigate risk, and to protect their residents and staff from coronavirus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And where there are outbreaks &#8211; two or more linked positive cases &#8211; those care homes are working even more closely with Public Health Devon to follow temporary additional measures to reduce risk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But with the <a 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up to visitors right now will put residents and staff at greater risk of infection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the new national rules, care home visitors are asked to make arrangements with care homes in advance of their visit, so that care home providers can manage the number of people attending at any one time, to ensure safety for residents and staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_61fd59908f810\" class=\"councillor-quote align-right other has-white-color has-black-background-color grid-x\">\r\n\t<blockquote class=\"councillor-quote-blockquote medium-auto small-12 cell\">\r\n                    <div class=\"councillor-quote-title\"><p>Steve Brown, Devon&#8217;s Director of Public Health, said:\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\r\n        \t\t<div class=\"councillor-quote-text\"><p style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">&#8220;Visiting loved ones and friends who live in care homes is vitally important to the resident&#8217;s wellbeing.\u00a0 We want there to come a time soon when additional restrictions will not be needed, but while cases in Devon care homes remain high, we ask visitors to make arrangements with their care home in advance of their visit, so that the care home can manage risk of infection to residents and staff.\u00a0\u00a0And that visitors follow the care home\u2019s own policy, through careful hand hygiene, wearing of appropriate Personal Protective Equipment, and using lateral flow device tests prior to visiting.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/blockquote>\r\n        <div class=\"councillor-quote-aside medium-auto small-12 cell\">\r\n\t<figure class=\"councillor-quote-image grid-x\">\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"small-6 cell medium-12\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/themes\/dcc-parent-v4\/images\/avatar-placeholder.png\" 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