Members Forum
COVID pathways
How are MH trust members interpreting the pathways for their inpatient services? Are you using this terminology in practice, and if so how do you "rate" patients who are test negative on admission and re-test, but are going out for regular leave and not always adhering to social distancing? Thank you
We have worked with all our areas to review the guidance (the inpatient areas) and we came to the conclusion that most areas felt that they required categorisation as a whole area in to a specific risk category and not by individual patients. Most of our units take direct admissions/ have patient who frequently decline testing and regular leave is taken. We are adopting the medium pathway for all except for our dedicated COVID-19 areas. Whilst I love the ethos and simplicity of the intended approach once again I feel it is very acute focused and designed to get services re-established (as it says on the tin!) It does not take into account the complexities of the services we are delivering and the challenging facilities we are delivering it in. We will continue to review and amend if necessary but most staff are currently feeling very anxious with the difficulties being faced with testing capacity