Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01829 · Session 5

Allow a designated visitor into intensive care wards

Closed Submitted 16 Sep 2020 Health
Signatures
0
212 online signatures with a country
Comments
27
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to allow a designated carer or family member into intensive care wards to visit, support and care for their loved ones.

What the petitioner did first

We have contacted the Scottish Government.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 25 Nov 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 27 Jan 2021
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

212 online signatures
  1. Scotland170 80.2%
  2. United Kingdom22 10.4%
  3. England8 3.8%
  4. Ireland7 3.3%
  5. Northern Ireland3 1.4%
  6. Germany1 0.5%
  7. Australia1 0.5%

Comments

27 comments, oldest first
  1. Russell Croker 30 Sep 2020
    Very good.
  2. maureen harmer 30 Sep 2020
    We need our family to be with us and for us to be with our family.
  3. Tracy macrae 30 Sep 2020
    I think people should be allowed in to be with their ill relatives to comfort and support them
  4. Charlotte maciver 30 Sep 2020
    I totally ageee
  5. Elizabeth keltie 30 Sep 2020
    What about buying our own ppe to visit my 24 year old son in the hospital it is heartbreaking not to be there to support him
  6. Ted Scanlon 30 Sep 2020
    At times the best medicine is to see and feel a friend nearby.
  7. Jane hall 30 Sep 2020
    Hope you get this passed.
  8. vicky Regan 30 Sep 2020
    praying for use all
  9. Lorraine Docherty 30 Sep 2020
    Patients in intensive care need a visitor to support them in their recovery.
  10. Rhian eddie 30 Sep 2020
    That family's should be aloud to see there family member if they are in intensive care
  11. Richie Marshall 30 Sep 2020
    Patients in intensive care should be aloud a visitor
  12. sharon elizabeth todd 30 Sep 2020
    I think that this could make a huge impact to a patient in need of support speaking as someone that has already lost family members to this awful pandemic, I know the difference this could have made even just to take some of the burden from their next of kin.
  13. Bernadette Macpherson 30 Sep 2020
    The right thing to do for families.
  14. Linda Kelly 30 Sep 2020
    One member of family could be with a patient at their moment of need it would also free up staff.
  15. Sheena Duboust 30 Sep 2020
    It seems quite inhumane not to allow a visitor- for both parties involved.
  16. Ita Phillips 1 Oct 2020
    Most definitely.
  17. Pamela Burns 1 Oct 2020
    Yes, I fully support the request to allow a designated visitor for those in ICU.
  18. Francis cousins 2 Oct 2020
    Yes
  19. Carol watson 4 Oct 2020
    Heart breaking for people
  20. Liz Phillips 4 Oct 2020
    For Gillian an everyone else needing the same. In all 4-- England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales.
  21. Liz Phillips 4 Oct 2020
    I wud like to think, someone was with me, it's lonely by yourself.
  22. Charles MacLean 4 Oct 2020
    hope the Government allow this
  23. Nancy Georgeson 6 Oct 2020
    I feel strongly that intensive care patients should be allowed a designated visitor.
  24. Samantha Pilbrow 8 Oct 2020
    Having gone through this with my husband it is barbaric that they are not allowed.
  25. Adelle Farley 8 Oct 2020
    I really hope this gets approved.
  26. Gerald Curley 10 Oct 2020
    No one should be deprived of there loved ones reassurance when they are so poorly.
  27. Gerald Curley 10 Oct 2020
    Poor family must be going out of there mind, this should not be happening. Also, more pressure added to the stressful job the nhs have to work under.