Rejected petition Ensure our young and old are never forced to die alone in hospital.

Ensure a communication mechanism is always in place for patients in isolated wards to connect with their loved ones, whether that's via digital methods or some type of visitor hazmat suit.

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Covid-19 has placed our healthcare system under great strain. Sadly, one measure to mitigate this has been to prohibit patient visitors. This has resulted in young and old dying alone, sometimes without any communication in the days leading to their deaths.

We must find a longer term solution, so even in the toughest of circumstances, our loved ones are never forced to die alone.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about visitors are an operational matter for the NHS and individual NHS trusts and institutions, and not the Government or House of Commons.

NHS England has published guidance on visitors during the coronavirus oubtreak: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/03/C0030_Visitor-Guidance_8-April-2020.pdf

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 3 April 2020
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