Contact tracking - a few thoughts

RE: Contact tracking - a few thoughts

Bob Russell — Fri, 29 May 2020 17:52:42 GMT

RIDDOR report if the infection is a result of occupational exposure. Try sorting that one out!

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Richard Carter — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:52:02 GMT

think the direction now floundering and this track and trace and the sudden 2 weeks quarantine post aircraft are steps backwards. What we need is a reliable test to find out how far the disease has permeated through the country and whether the 'herd' immunity likely already achieved. There have been a number of opportunities to de-escalate the rhetoric but everyone is having such fun saving lives, dressing up and being morally superior to their neighbours....

Yes apparently if you get Covid case in workplace, you have to make a RIDDOR report

RE: Contact tracking - a few thoughts

Gillian Mostyn — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:51:35 GMT

[quote userid="9239" url="~/001/nonclinical/f/life-in-practice-discussions/29130/contact-tracking---a-few-thoughts/223098"]Do we HAVE to have it? [/quote]

If you mean the app, no I don't think so. But contact tracing is also done by simply asking the infected person who they've had contact with. If they name you....

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KMurphy — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:10:26 GMT

Teams are great except where you only have one vet... I don't have any answers for that except hoping to get a locum at very short notice if I need to self-isolate. I'm being very careful in my personal contacts but I have no control over what my staff do in their spare time.

Just crossing fingers it's not something I'm going to have to deal with.

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Jill Butterworth — Fri, 29 May 2020 14:49:54 GMT

Seems a very expensive exercise with quite a few flaws. As it relies on trust and us supplying the details of who we've been <1m away from for >15mins, and we have to supply their contact details, we might as well just text them ourselves! It also requires us to dob ourselves in for breaching social distancing which some people may be wary of doing.

I think the tracing app will work much better for today's society and how we are used to communicating.

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Ex Member — Fri, 29 May 2020 13:03:46 GMT

No tumbleweed. Statement released yesterday. www.bva.co.uk/.../

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David Mills — Fri, 29 May 2020 12:51:07 GMT

It won't work, it would literally close the hospital departments in a few minutes. Suspect it will need to be supplemented with antibody testing or the rules bent for certain professions.

Interesting H + S element to this - suspect there will be some test cases in the courts in the coming months over H + S law where employers are accused of not providing enough or insufficiently protective PPE, or sufficiently safe working conditions, as it is the employer's responsibility to ensure this. Good time to be a lawyer.

Be nice to have some guidance from the RCVS/BVA on this...tumbleweed.

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Dinu Catilina — Fri, 29 May 2020 12:50:22 GMT

Do we HAVE to have it?

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Gillian Mostyn — Fri, 29 May 2020 12:13:22 GMT

I assume a lot of workplaces are going to struggle with this. I can't see how it will work.

It does, however, concentrate the mind in avoiding other folk. You don't want to have to self isolate because somebody else managed to catch Covid!

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Mark Holmes — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:57:28 GMT

I’m interested in people’s thoughts on this.

On the one hand we will be placing a cap on the length of consults to avoid anything over 15 minutes. This should be relatively easy.

however

Track and trace has potential to close the practice of a member of staff becomes ill. We are not in position to maintain 2 meters distancing and the workload is too intense for dedicated Vet/Nurse teams to really function well. ie we just wouldn’t get through it.

Has anyone seen anything which would provide guidance? Managing a team around this is going to prove a headache and significant work stress issues. The prospect of enforced isolation is causing me some distress over and above everything else.

It actually feels harder and worse than lockdown has been.

RE: Contact tracking - a few thoughts

Gillian Mostyn — Thu, 28 May 2020 22:00:09 GMT

As far as I'm aware a 'contact' has to have been consistent contact (more than 15 mins) without social distancing. I therefore would assume most professional interactions shouldn't count, as long as normal precautions can be taken?