![]() Updated 'Guidance on care home visiting' to reflect the change in guidance on 16 August that you no longer have to self-isolate after confirmed close contact with a positive case of COVID-19 if you are fully vaccinated or under 18. Removed reference to the guidance on the MCA and the application of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Advice around flu and other transmissible viruses has also been added, along with guidance on how care homes can support residents on visits outside of the care home. Updated to place more emphasis on fact visits should take place wherever is most comfortable for the resident, visiting restrictions due to an outbreak should only be in place for 7 to 8 days following negative testing, and that physical contact should be supported to help health and wellbeing. Updated to add new restrictions on care home visiting due to the new Omicron variant of COVID-19: reducing the number of visitors each care home resident can receive to 3 (not including essential care givers or preschool age children), requiring testing or self-isolation following visits out of the care home, and changing testing arrangements for staff and essential caregivers.Īdded a comma after 'emergency stay in hospital' in the 13th bullet point on the page. Updated to reflect resident LFD testing following visits out of the care home are required every second day for 10 days, and to add that nominated visitors should remain the same wherever possible. Updated the 'Care home outbreaks' section to reflect that the Omicron variant will be treated the same as the Alpha and Delta variants for the purposes of managing outbreaks. Updated to reflect new national guidance on removal of confirmatory PCR tests in the case of a positive lateral flow test. Updated to reflect the fact that there is now no limit on visitor numbers following a normal visit out, residents do not need to test or self-isolate and, following an emergency hospital stay or other high-risk visit out, residents should self-isolate for 10 days, with testing arrangements to end isolation sooner. ![]() ![]() Updated to provide clarification on essential care giver visits during an outbreak Updated to reflect changes to self-isolation requirements. People working or volunteering in care homes are no longer required to have received a COVID-19 vaccine to enter the premises. Updated section 1.3 to reflect regulations revoking vaccination as a condition of deployment came into force on 15 March 2022. Updated to reduce the duration of outbreak management in care homes from 14 days to 10 days. ![]()
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