Exempt from lockdown, private medical practice?

Jon_01

Okay, my wife works for a private medical practice. All the admin staff like her 'assumed' they'd be locked down from Thursday and working from home.

The consultants that run the company say that 'Medical service companies' are exempt from locking down and they want everyone in.
I've looked through the rules as published on Oct 31st and Nov 1st and all I can see is that NHS medical service are exempt not the private sector.
Does anyone have any insight into this part of the rules?

Thanks...

MattMattMattUK

If the company deems it necessary, that they can only do their job from the office, then they can be required to go in. 

Thrugelmir

This isn't the same level of lockdown as previously. Not yet anyway. 

Spendless

I don't know but I visisted my Chiropodist today, she's private not NHS and she told me she can remain open. She rents a room inside an Opticians and checked with them and they are also staying open for their usual trading hours. This is unlike last time when Opticians only were open to emergency only.  

Jon_01

MattMattMattUK said:

If the company deems it necessary, that they can only do their job from the office, then they can be required to go in. 

All the admin staff can work from home, they did for the first few weeks last time. They all have laptops linked to the practice IT system.
Two of them have people in their family that are shielding and are very worried about getting in. . .

bradders1983

Jon_01 said:

MattMattMattUK said:

If the company deems it necessary, that they can only do their job from the office, then they can be required to go in. 

All the admin staff can work from home, they did for the first few weeks last time. They all have laptops linked to the practice IT system.
Two of them have people in their family that are shielding and are very worried about getting in. . .

So they were happy to go in today? Why not in 3 days time? There is no difference in the grand scheme of things, the office layout is exactly the same, the client throughput is exactly the same.

silvercar

One thing the government said was that they want all areas of medicine to carry on running, unlike last time, they don’t want a build up of waiting lists in other areas that happened last time.
So I’m not surprised that a medical company is still open.
The idea is to reduce the burden on the NHS, so to close private medical services.

MoneySeeker1

THE basic question they should be asking themselves is "Just how could anyone medical 'work from home' and do their job properly?", followed by "Why are we in this job anyway? Is it to help people or to earn an income for ourselves personally?"

The answer then becomes pretty obvious imo.

unforeseen

Two of them have people in their family that are shielding and are very worried about getting in. . .

Just to be clear, NOBODY is shielding. Shielding was paused at the end of July and has not been resumed. 
All the staff have to do is to implement the measures that have been posted on here a myriad of times and are also on the gov site.
There has been no mention of additional special measures for those living with vulnerable or clinically extremely vulnerable people apart from what is already out there. 

Aranyani

unforeseen said:

Two of them have people in their family that are shielding and are very worried about getting in. . .

Just to be clear, NOBODY is shielding. Shielding was paused at the end of July and has not been resumed. 
All the staff have to do is to implement the measures that have been posted on here a myriad of times and are also on the gov site.
There has been no mention of additional special measures for those living with vulnerable or clinically extremely vulnerable people apart from what is already out there. 

I think people now just use shielding as shorthand for someone who was on the shielding list earlier in the year, its quick and people know what it means. 

bradders1983

Aranyani said:

unforeseen said:

Two of them have people in their family that are shielding and are very worried about getting in. . .

Just to be clear, NOBODY is shielding. Shielding was paused at the end of July and has not been resumed. 
All the staff have to do is to implement the measures that have been posted on here a myriad of times and are also on the gov site.
There has been no mention of additional special measures for those living with vulnerable or clinically extremely vulnerable people apart from what is already out there. 

I think people now just use shielding as shorthand for someone who was on the shielding list earlier in the year, its quick and people know what it means. 

And its fair enough if you are one of those people, but I have little time for people refusing to go in merely because they live with someone who was. That ship has sailed, if anything it sank minutes after leaving port. If people want to protect people they live with in this way they can resign imo, and let one of the rising masses of the unemployed take their job.

Harsh? Maybe.