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Nov 2020
Harrogate care homes install visiting pods
Care homes in the Harrogate district have installed visiting pods so residents can meet relatives safely.
Vida Healthcare has opened three 'together again' pods to enable visits to continue over winter. One is at Vida Hall in Starbeck and two are at Vida Grange in Pannal.
Current guidance allows for one designated visitor per pod. But if one relative cannot attend another person can visit instead using the pod.
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The pod enables Anne Thompson to see her husband, who has been at Vida Hall since 2015. She said:
Bernadette Mossman, the healthcare director at Vida Healthcare, said:
Guidance on care home visits
Care home visits will continue in North Yorkshire despite the country entering a second national lockdown.
The county council restricted visits during October but advised homes they could relax the rules in November to allow one designated visitor for each resident.
Officials have said the measure will continue through lockdown, but homes that report an outbreak will have to restrict visits.
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