Colleagues at HCC have asked us to let you know that there is a deadline that if a home wants to send a visitor appeal, please ensure these are received by 10am on Friday morning.
Hertfordshire Public Health have made a decision that if a home wishes to open up to visitors before the end of outbreak, they can only do this with the permission of the county council via the care home outbreak cell.
The key elements that the home must be able to demonstrate are:
- Completed both rounds of whole home PCR testing, which is 4-7 days apart and all results have come back negative
- level of vaccine coverage, including booster coverage in eligible residents (ideally above 90%)
- levels of participation in routine staff weekly testing (ideally above 75%)
- compliance with IPC measures
- Risk assessment by the home
All care homes need to complete the template which can be downloaded here and submit to assistance@hcpa.info
» Click here for the HCC framework for visiting updated 29th Nov 2021
» Click here for the checklist for Non-essential visitor arrangements
» Click here for the checklist for care home visits using lateral flow testing
» Click here for the visits out of care home risk assessment tool
» Click here for the visits out of care home checklist