9 March 2022

Hawick Community Hospital is closed to admissions with all but essential visiting suspended due to a Covid-19 outbreak.

The current visiting restrictions are in order to keep our patients and staff safe by reducing unnecessary footfall, thus helping to limit the spread of this highly transmissible virus. The situation will be kept under regular review with visiting restrictions being eased as soon as it is safe to do so.

 Examples of “essential visiting” include:

  • a person receiving end-of-life care – we expect this to be defined as flexibly and compassionately as possible, to support patients at the end of life spending meaningful time with their loved ones in their final days, weeks or months
  • to support someone with a mental health issue, or dementia, or a learning disability or autism, where not being present would cause the patient to be distressed
  • in general situations when someone is receiving information about life-changing illness or treatments
  • In these and other similar situations where support from another person is essential for advocacy and wellbeing, family support should be facilitated.

Further visiting guidance is on our website. If your visit is essential please contact your loved one’s care team to make arrangements.