Owing to coronavirus (CoVid-19), Public Health England (PHE) advises that the following groups should stay indoors, avoid contact with other people and call NHS 111:
· Those who have travelled from Wuhan and Hubei Province in the last 14 days
· Those who have travelled in the last 14 days from any other high-risk areas and have coronavirus symptoms including fever, cough, shortness of breath
· Those who have come into contact with a coronavirus patient in the last 14 days.
PHE currently considers the following areas to be high-risk: China, Thailand, Japan, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Macau.
If any of these applies to you, please do not attend an HCA Healthcare UK facility, even if you have an appointment. Instead, follow the PHE advice.
PLEASE NOTE: We do not offer testing for coronavirus.
Information for HCA Healthcare UK patients:
If you are an HCA Healthcare UK patient, and are booked in for an interventional procedure, you will be contacted to ensure that you have not travelled to any high-risk area in the past 14 days. If you are at risk at the time of your procedure, it will not be able to go ahead until 14 days after you have travelled in a high-risk area and are symptom free.
We will ask all patients about their travel history when they arrive. This is for your safety - evidence shows that patients who have weakened immune systems, which may include patients who have recently undergone treatment, are more susceptible to coronavirus.