Visiting at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust continues to be temporarily suspended due to the increasing prevalence of COVID-19 in the local community.
After careful review, they are lifting the visiting restrictions from 7 February 2022. Visiting must be arranged in advance with the ward and is restricted to inpatient areas only.
The hospital trust, which covers Watford General Hospital, St Albans City Hospital and Hemel Hempstead Hospital, restricted visiting in adult inpatient areas on Saturday 1 January 2022 for an initial period of two weeks.
Having carefully reviewed the situation, the trust have decided to keep restrictions in place for a further two weeks until the end of January.
The trust will continue to closely monitor the local situation, and the decision will be reviewed again at the beginning February with a view to reinstating visiting.
Tracey Carter, the trust’s Chief Nurse, said: “We recognise how important visiting is for patients and their families. However, the increase in cases locally does now pose a greater risk and we feel that it is now necessary to restrict visiting to keep our patients and staff as safe as possible. We hope to be able to ease these restrictions as soon as we can do this safely.”
In exceptional circumstances, for example when visiting children or patients receiving end of life care, visiting arrangements can be made in advance by contacting the ward directly.
No visitors will be allowed on any of our hospital sites apart from in the following exceptional circumstances:
Important: In these exceptional circumstances, restrictions will still apply, so relatives must:
Please note that visiting arrangements for our maternity services will not be affected by these changes.
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