Local hospitals suspend visitors except for exceptional circumstances

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Rochdale Infirmary

Pennine Acute has suspended visiting at all of its hospitals until further notice.

This includes North Manchester General Hospital, The Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary and Fairfield General Hospital in Bury.

The only exceptional circumstances where one visitor – an immediate family member or carer – will be permitted to visit are where:

• The patient you wish to visit is receiving end-of-life care.
• You are the birthing partner accompanying a woman in labour.
• You are a parent or appropriate adult visiting your child.

Please contact the ward or department in advance to discuss appropriate arrangements:

• www.pat.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/ward-contact-numbers.htm

People are asked to find other ways of keeping in touch with loved ones in hospital, such as phone and video calls.

Current national guidance advice is to stay at home wherever possible, to help limit the spread of coronavirus, protect the most vulnerable people in our communities and our NHS.

Everyone is asked only to leave home for necessary shopping, for medical needs, for one form of exercise and travelling to and from work when “absolutely necessary.”

For the latest public advice and guidance from the NHS, please go online to

• www.nhs.uk/coronavirus