NHS boss orders hospitals to ditch ALL remaining Covid visiting restrictions - as she says 'no patient should have to be alone'
● NHS boss told trusts to allow visits to boost patient mental health and recovery
● Hospitals should return or pre-Covid policies 'or better' on inpatient visiting
● It comes after dozens of hospitals still had limits on visiting last month

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NHS hospitals have once again been told to scrap any patient visiting restrictions introduced during the Covid pandemic.

Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, yesterday told trusts to allow visitors to boost patients' 'experience, mental health and recovery'.

In a letter sent to hospital bosses, she said all healthcare settings 'should now begin transitioning back towards their own pre-pandemic (or better) policies on inpatient visiting'.

Ms Pritchard added the 'default position' should be 'no patient having to be alone unless through their choice'. ...

Last month Queen Victoria Hospital in Sussex, Yeovil Hospital and St Bartholomew's in London came under fire for stringent visitor limits. MPs claimed the restrictions were illegal. ...

...Ms Pritchard told an NHS England meeting yesterday visitor guidelines should be implemented in full citing significant benefits.

She said: 'Allowing visitors, as well as loved ones accompanying those attended planned appointments, is really important to patient experience, mental health and recovery.

'Not to mention the benefit that clinicians can get from having the input and insight into their patient from those who know them best.

'As well as the value to patient care, this is about the core NHS values of compassion, of dignity and of respect.' ...

NHS trusts across England were told to 'return to pre-pandemic physical distancing in all areas'. ...

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