Perth -based care provider says relaxation of home visitation rules is “ill-thought-out” and putting staff and residents “at possible risk”.
Tony Banks of Balhousie Care Group has lamented the timing of the Scottish Government’s announcement, delivered as COVID-19 cases are seeing a rapid rise.Four-hour long in-home visits to care homes will be allowed, as well as hand-holding and up to six visitors in gardens. Dog matching description of missing Rossi spotted in Highland Perthshire While the enhanced visits have been welcomed as a health and wellbeing benefit to residents, Balhousie Care Group will not relax its own visiting rules until there are “reassurances of safer and better practices” to minimise the risk of transmission of the.
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