People in residential care with Covid-19 should be kept in homes, crisis team says

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With approximately one in five of all cases of the disease arising in long term residential care settings, the National Public Health Emergency Team has come up with six policies aimed at keeping people in the homes to the greatest extent possible

Among the measures to be put in place are “teams of last resort” that will be ready to go into individual LRTCs for short periods to ensure service delivery.

The six categories of measures contained in the circular address new national and regional teams to oversee LRTCs; staff screening and prioritising for testing for Covid-19; transmission mitigation; the provision of personal protection equipment and oxygen; training; and preparedness plans for infection outbreaks.

 

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