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Allow next of kin of dying Covid-19 patients to be present bedside wearing PPE

Submitted on Thursday 2nd April 2020

Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow next of kin of dying Covid-19 patients to be present bedside wearing PPE

Petition Details

To ensure direct relatives, a minimum of 1, is in attendance at the bedside of a dying relative with protective PPE. It is unhuman into to have this as a minimum, both to the person dying and their next of kin, who in several cases will no doubt suffer psychological trauma as a result.

Additional Information

Simply to be humane.


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This petition was rejected

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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