Need to know
For #TeamEEAST Last updated: 19 May 2024 at 03:46
The COVID team is holding a briefing and Q&A session for all staff to go through the latest guidance on COVID-19 at midday on Monday 20th June. This can be accessed on the link below.
COVID-19 Teams Live event – Monday 20 June at 1200 hours
The guidance has changed recently and communicated with management teams. This session aims to increase awareness and understanding of this new guidance and answer any questions you may have.
To help tailor the briefing it would be useful for any questions or points you wish to raise to be sent to the coordination centre email listed below. There will be opportunity to ask questions during the Teams Live event.
Please send queries to - EEASTCoordinationCentre@eastamb.nhs.uk
A couple of the key changes for your local teams with regards to ambulance stations and other non-clinical premises is that physical distancing and mask wearing is no longer a mandatory requirement.
Staff can continue to use masks within non-clinical areas if they wish to and these should remain available. Social distancing and mask wearing remains an effective way of reducing infection transmission. Where you identify an increased risk – for example, a large number of people in a smallish room – please use the learning from the last couple of years to limit this risk. If you need to put in additional measures locally for a specific task, then you can and are encouraged to.
Please remember that the removal of mandatory mask wearing and distancing is a stepped approach to ‘living with COVID’. Elements such as good hand hygiene, ventilation of rooms, using space appropriately, using screens and cleaning workspaces should be continued and form part of the new Business As Usual (BAU).
For awareness, the COVID-19 Homepage is under continuous review and there will be several documents removed and/or amended in the coming days.
Please continue to use level 2 and level 3 PPE for all patient attendances as described in the COVID guidance. There will come a time that PPE reverts to transmission-based precautions which can be determined by each clinician following risk assessment of patient presentation. However, for this current time continue to use the levels that we have been so far and upgrade where necessary.
Wednesday 15 June 2022