Whether you’re coming in for an appointment, test, treatment, overnight stay, or if you’re visiting a friend, there are a couple things you need to know.

To stop the spread of coronavirus and to keep our patients, staff, and communities safe, we’ve made some temporary changes to your care.

How are you feeling?

Help us protect our vulnerable patients from nasty bugs. Viruses and infections can make our patients’ illnesses worse.

Please stay at home if you have:

  • symptoms of COVID-19, such as a dry cough, a high temparture, shortness of breathe, and anosmia
  • diarrhoea or sickness or in the last 48 hours
  • flu-like symptoms, such as a temperature, runny nose, and a cough
  1. Your planned procedure or endoscopy

    If you have a date for your planned procedure, follow our information about shielding and testing.
  2. Your outpatient appointment

    Your appointment will either take place as usual, or we’ll talk to you online or on the phone. We’ll let you know if you need to do anything different.
  3. Visiting a friend or relative

    Our wards are closed to visitors (except in exceptional circumstances) but we can connect you with your loved ones in other ways.
  4. COVID-19 and maternity services

    We want to keep mum safe and baby healthy, so we’ve changed some of our clinics, our visiting policy, and introduced new rules for birthing partners. Our teams are still here to care for you.

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Our emergency departments are currently very busy

If you have an urgent but non-life threatening illness or injury, or you're unsure about where to get help, visit 111.nhs.uk.

999 and our A&Es are for serious, life threatening emergencies.