SOCIAL DISTANCING AND COVID-19 INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL AT FACEMED

In addition to our usual infection prevention and control procedures at FACEmed, we have introduced the following extra measures;

• Management is monitoring the COVID-19 situation on a daily basis and ensuring that the Centre and Team are following guidance from the Department of Health.
• Clinical team members will wear a uniform/scrubs which will be changed at the end of each day and washed at 60 degrees or above.
• Clinical team members will wear the following PPE during your visit:
  • Surgical Masks
  • Visors (in some cases)
  • Disposable Hair Caps (in some cases)
  • Non-Latex Gloves
  • Disposable Aprons
• Our new appointment scheduling process allows only one patient into the allocated clinic at a time, this allows us to eliminate waiting areas and promote a 2 meter distance. Please ensure you are on-time for your appointments. You may not be seen if you are late.
• It is not permitted for you to bring anyone into the medical centre with you.
• We ask that you do no attend the medical centre if you or someone in your household has a high temperature, a cough, loss of taste or smell, or has been sick within the last 14 days before your appointment date.
• You will be asked to wash your hands on arrival at the centre.
• Please limit your personal belongings that you bring into the centre, these will not be permitted into the treatment room with you.
• Waiting rooms are no longer in use for now.
• The Centre is equipped with hand sanitisation stations at various locations which you are encouraged to use on arrival and before departing the Centre.
• After your visit we will wipe down all surfaces touched with virucidal disinfectant in preparation for the next patient.
• The Centre is professionally cleaned at the end of each day by specialist healthcare cleaners – S&S Mediclean who are specially trained in Infection Prevention and Control.
• All FACEmed team members on-site have received relevant infection prevention and control training and are up-to-date on COVID-19 guidance. Management ensures that all team members on-site abide by social distancing rules, wear appropriate PPE and wash their hands on a more than regular basis. All team members have been had the necessary screening before returning to work.