Assessing your risk
Please do not attend a HCA facility for any reason if you have a high temperature (over 37.8 degrees) or have a new continuous cough or streaming nose or flu-like symptoms. If you do have these symptoms or anyone in your household does, please follow Public Health England guidance, more details can be found by clicking here.
If you have any further questions about your suitability to work contact your medical director.
If you have any further questions about your suitability to work contact your medical director.
Consultant advice on direct admissions/transfers
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HCA UK will:
- Not accept any patients whose primary symptoms include being febrile and respiratory without evidence of a negative test for CoVid-19 in the last 48 hours
- Not automatically accept any patients from other countries without evidence of a negative CoVid-19 test within the last 48 hours. These referrals should be discussed with microbiology and the hospital medical director
- Not accept any patients who have been in contact with a confirmed case of CoVid-19 until they have been symptom free for 14 days and have evidence of a negative test within the last 48 hours.
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Please discuss any ITU transfers with the hospital consultant intensivist.
HCA UK will:
- Not accept any patient without a negative CoVid-19 test within the last 48 hours regardless of country of origin
- Not accept any patient who has been in contact with a confirmed case of Covid-19.
All direct transfers to any of our ITUs or PICU must first be agreed with the hospital intensivist.
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