We wish to confirm that as per the Federal Health Minister, Greg Hunt, Physiotherapy is an essential service and as such Bathurst Family Physiotherapy will remain open.
Bathurst Family Physiotherapy use standard precautions to protect staff and clients and follow guidelines for the control of infection in all health care settings and all situations, as infectious clients may not show any signs or symptoms of infection.
We wish to inform you that we are following and implementing strategies which are in line with current hand hygiene recommendations and that we are following the covid-19 updates from NSW Health and the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
Our standard hygiene policy is to clean out hands thoroughly before and after each patient, after touching any equipment and before and after any manual therapy. All beds and equipment are wiped down between each patient.
We have increased the cleaning of all contact points, we have increased the accessibility of hand sanitiser throughout our rooms and increased the spaces between chairs in our waiting room.
To protect others and ourselves we must:
practise good hygiene
practise social distancing
follow the limits for public gatherings
understand how to self-isolate if needed
Please support each other and be kind to each other in this challenging time. If you would like to book a physiotherapy appointment with one of our team, please call us on 02 6331 8354.
Thanks,
Edel and Tanya
Western NSW Local Health District has set up a call centre to provide residents of the LHD with streamlined access to gain clinical COVID19 information. The call centre can be reached on 1300 066 055, Monday to Friday 8am-5pm.
References:
https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert
5 moments of hand hygiene:
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World Health Organisation – how to handwash
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Should I wear a face mask?
You do not need to wear a mask if you are healthy. While the use of masks can help to prevent transmission of disease from infected patients to others, masks are not currently recommended for use by healthy members of the public for the prevention of infections like coronavirus.