Do you have an Acute Respiratory Infection?

We ask that you do not visit the hospital if you are unwell with any cold or flu symptoms.

If you have tested positive for COVID-19, Influenza A, Influenza B or RSV, please do not enter the hospital until 7 days have passed and any symptoms have resolved.

If you live in a household with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 or another respiratory infection, please do not visit until 7 days have passed, after contact with the person who has tested positive.

Please contact your doctors’ rooms directly if you think this will impact on your planned surgery or appointment.

Thank you for helping keep our most vulnerable safe.

Visitors and Visiting Hours.

Visitors are permitted at Bethesda during visiting hours. We ask visitors to perform hand hygiene when entering and leaving the hospital. Please remember not to visit if you have any respiratory illness symptoms. Masks are available for use on request.

Patient Information.

Patients who have no symptoms of a respiratory illness and are scheduled for surgery, are not required to complete a Rapid Antigen Test (RAT)

Patients who are experiencing symptoms of a respiratory illness prior to admission, please contact the hospital for further advice.

If you are symptomatic and have a positive test result, please notify the hospital and your surgeons’ rooms. Your surgery will be rescheduled.