Friday 20 May 2022 11:13 AM NHS boss orders hospitals to ditch ALL remaining Covid visiting restrictions trends now
Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, yesterday told trusts, to allow visitors to boost patients' 'experience, mental health and recovery'
NHS hospitals have once again been told to scrap any patient visiting restrictions introduced during the Covid pandemic.
Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, yesterday told trusts to allow visitors to boost patients' 'experience, mental health and recovery'.
In a letter sent to hospital bosses, she said all healthcare settings 'should now begin transitioning back towards their own pre-pandemic (or better) policies on inpatient visiting'.
Ms Pritchard added the 'default position' should be 'no patient having to be alone unless through their choice'.
NHS guidelines were updated in March to allow patients to have two visitors for at least one hour per day and 'ideally for longer'.
Hospitals, including Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead (left), Yeovil Hospital (right) and St Bartholomew's in London last month came under fire for having more stringent limits on visitors
But nearly half of trusts maintained policies so strict they flaunted the guidance, the Mail on Sunday found.
Last month Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex, Yeovil Hospital and St
