Following the abandonment of most Covid-19 (Coronavirus) public health measures in the UK, we are following guidance from the World Health Organization. We will continue to provide physiotherapy services to clients who are well and not in the ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ category. We have implemented the following procedures to ensure your health and safety during your physiotherapy appointment:
1. We will contact you prior to your appointment to undertake a risk assessment and check that you are free of cold or flu symptoms.
2. We are cancelling all appointments where our clients are feeling unwell in any way.
3. If our physiotherapists begin to experience any cold or flu like symptoms they will cancel your appointment, arrange appropriate testing and self-isolate appropriately.
4. Our treatment room, gym equipment and waiting area are being disinfected with a bleach solution prior to and following each client we see. This includes the treatment bed, walls, doors, door frames, light switches, door handles and taps.
5. We have modified our diaries to ensure that there is at least five minutes between our clients. This prevents client to client contact and allows us to fully ventilate the treatment room and clean all surfaces as above.
6. In addition to keeping external windows open in our treatment rooms to provide fresh air ventilation, we are using an air purifier with Carbon filter and True HEPA filter which removes 99.99% of particulates and neutralises virus particles, running continuously cleaning the air in our treatment room 4-8x each hour.
7. We are a single treatment room physiotherapy clinic and we don’t have a communal waiting area. This prevents client to client contact.
8. Your physiotherapist will be wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) namely single use medical examination gloves, a protective apron, sealed elastometric P3 face mask and protective eye wear.
9. On removal of disposable PPE our physiotherapists are washing their hands thoroughly, in line with normal practice.
10. All of our physiotherapists are trained in infection control procedures and have previous experience working in ICU and respiratory medicine.