Submitted on Thursday 2nd April 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 27th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Allow family to be at the beside of COVID-19 patients at end of life.
Put in place guidance and measures to ensure that patients do not die alone, without their family present.
Morally and ethically, it is heart breaking that people dying of COVID-19 cannot have a family member at their beside when they pass away. It’s mentally scarring for the family members and feels like a basic human right to have access to this security and comfort as you pass away.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Decisions about visitors at hospitals or care homes are a matter for individual NHS trusts and care homes, not the Government or House of Commons.
The NHS has published visitor guidance for NHS trusts: www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/03/C0030_Visitor-Guidance_8-April-2020.pdf
And the Care Quality Commission has published visitor guidance for care homes: www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/adult-social-care/information-adult-social-care-services-during-coronavirus-outbreak#restricting-visitors
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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