UNISON claim was 10%
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Recommended PPE for primary, outpatient, community and social care by setting, NHS and independent sector
Date: 14 April 2020.
The PPE guidance takes you to a table showing the types of PPE you need depending on your workplace.
For staff working in care homes you need to read to look at the fourth column down on the left entitled:
“Community and social care, care home, mental health inpatients and other overnight care facilities e.g. learning disability, hospices, prison healthcare.”
If you look at the guidance it states:
What do they mean by eye/face protection?
What do they mean by Single Use?
“4.Single use refers to disposal of PPE or decontamination of reusable items e.g. eye protection or respirator, after each patient and/or following completion of a procedure, task, or session; dispose or decontaminate reusable items after each patient contact as per Standard Infection Control Precautions (SICPs).”
What do they mean by Sessional use?
“5.A single session refers to a period of time where a health care worker is undertaking duties in a specific care setting/exposure environment e.g. on a ward round; providing ongoing care for inpatients. A session ends when the health care worker leaves the care setting/exposure environment. Sessional use should always be risk assessed and considered where there are high rates of hospital cases. PPE should be disposed of after each session or earlier if damaged, soiled, or uncomfortable.”
What do they mean by risk assess?
“8. Risk assessed use refers to utilising PPE when there is an anticipated/likely risk of contamination with splashes, droplets or blood or body fluids.”
For more details click on link to Government web site below
It is really important that all staff have training as to how to put on PPE and to take it off.
This is a training video produced by Public Health England as to how to put on and take off your PPE. It is less than 7 minutes long. Watching it and following the guidance will keep you and the people you are caring for safe.
Please watch COVID-19: Donning and doffing of Personal Protective Equipment in Health and Social Care Settings
If you have not had training please speak to your manager. If you do not get training please contact Barnet UNISON 0208 359 2088 or email us at contactus@barnetunison.org.uk
What happens if I take a break e.g. to have a drink of tea or water or go to the toilet?
You need to remove and dispose of your PPE safely, including the face mask. When you start work again you need to put on your fresh PPE for when you are carrying out personal care. You must not continue to use the same mask, apron or gloves.
https://www.barnet.gov.uk/internal/mental-health-and-wellbeing
If you are a care worker in Barnet please please click on the link below for details of the type of PPE you should be wearing in your workplace.
Below is the latest government advice for those workers who live with someone who is defined as at risk from the Coronavirus.
“Guidance on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable from COVID-19”
Updated 30 March 2020
Background and scope of guidance
This guidance is for people, including children, who are at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) because of an underlying health condition, and for their family, friends and carers. It is intended for use in situations where the extremely vulnerable person is living in their own home, with or without additional support. This includes the extremely clinically vulnerable people living in long-term care facilities, either for the elderly or persons with special needs.
Shielding is a measure to protect people who are clinically extremely vulnerable by minimising all interaction between those who are extremely vulnerable and others. We are strongly advising people with serious underlying health conditions (listed below), which put them at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19), to rigorously follow shielding measures in order to keep themselves safe.
If the rest of your household stringently follow advice on social distancing and minimise the risk of spreading the virus within the home by following the advice above, there is no need for them to also shield alongside you.”
Read more advice here
If you have any questions or concerns email the branch at
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Website here https://www.barnetunison.me.uk/wp/
Do you work in a care home or a school ?
Do you have some concerns about Coronavirus and what procedures should be in place in your work place?
Why not give the helpline a call?
Barnet Council have set up a Public Health (PH) helpline for care homes in Barnet.
The number is 0808 281 3210, choose option 5, which will state:
“If you are calling from a care home, school or are a Councillor needing public health advice, press 5.”
The PH Team will be able to talk you through the infection control procedures and organise PPE delivery, via covid19.
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2020.04.01. Covid_19 Advice to Staff visiting homes 30.03_JD
Please sign this petition
We demand Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is made immediately available for all care workers.
It is time for a change in the Public Health guidance on wearing PPE.
All care workers need to be provided with PPE (mask and gloves etc.) and training in how to use it.
Until now you have to be working with someone known to have the virus to have PPE.
That may have been right back then but now it’s got to change.
Care workers need PPE.
PPE needs to be provided on the assumption any of us could have Covid-19.
We can’t afford our care workers being exposed to the virus or passing it on to service users.
It takes just one case in a care home and suddenly care workers will be sent home to self-isolate.
But who looks after the residents if you send the care workers to self-isolate?
We don’t have enough care workers to work to this strategy which is why ALL care workers must be provided with PPE.
We can see there isn’t enough PPE for the NHS but this should not be a reason for not making this demand.
If care homes start falling where do you think this will end?
More admissions to hospitals!
If this Government can’t ensure there is enough provision of PPE then they should step aside and let others take over.
It’s already happening and we can’t stay silent on this any longer.
It’s a simple demand – PPE must be provided for all care workers.
No excuses, no delay.
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