Visiting Ban Lifted
The ban on visitors to Poole Hospital has now been lifted. However, visiting will be restricted to a maximum of two people per patient, due to high levels of flu and winter sickness still circulating in the community.
To help us protect our patients, visitors are urged not to come into the hospital if they have any flu-like symptoms, or have had any diarrhoea or sickness in the last three days.
Patients should attend for outpatient appointments and tests unless they have coughs, colds or have had a tummy bug in the last three days. If they have any concerns, patients are urged to phone ahead before coming into the hospital.
Poole Hospital treats a high number of emergency patients, so the number of patients we are caring for with flu symptoms can change very quickly. As such, numbers fluctuate daily. However, the hospital continues to treat some patients with flu or flu-like symptoms, as is common for this time of year, and the number across the hospital remains similar to last week.
The hospital is coping well with the additional demand on services, and routine surgery commenced again today after the planned break over the Christmas and New Year period.
Date: 11 January 2011