Inpatient wards
Most inpatient wards offer visiting times from 2 pm to 8 pm.
Each patient will be allowed two visitors at any one time.
Patients at the end of life will be allowed visitors. The number of visitors at any one time will be agreed with the ward sister.
We will continue to support visiting for our vulnerable patients outside of these hours.
Please note
Some wards have different visiting hours or suspend visiting hours for a period in the afternoon. Please contact the ward directly or check the ‘Wards and Visiting Times’ directory on the relevant hospital page to check visiting hours before travelling.
Outpatient Departments
One person can accompany a patient at any appointment if required. The number of people required to support vulnerable people attending an appointment should be agreed with the department.
Emergency Departments (A&E)
One visitor can accompany a patient in the Emergency Departments if required.
Leeds Children’s Hospital
Both parents/carers will continue to have 24-hour unrestricted visiting throughout the Children’s Hospital.
All children will be allowed two siblings at any one time and two additional visitors. The following principles must be followed:
- A parent always accompanies the visitor/sibling
- The visitor/sibling has no temperature, cough, vomiting, diarrhoea, runny nose or other symptoms suggest of an infectious illness
- Visiting hours for additional visitors are limited to 2 pm to 7 pm
- Visiting numbers will be kept to two per bed
- Hand hygiene technique and information will be shared with all visitors and they will be part of the regular hand hygiene audits.
Maternity
Two birth partners will be allowed on delivery suite for the duration of the stay.
An additional adult visitor will be allowed on the antenatal and postnatal wards during the visiting hours of 2 pm to 4 pm and 6 pm to 8 pm. No more than three adults will be allowed around the bedside during visiting hours.
Birth partners can stay overnight on the antenatal and postnatal wards. The patient’s own children can visit outside of visiting times with the birth partner.
One supportive adult can accompany the patient for all scans, outpatient appointments and in assessment areas.
Adult Critical Care – ICU
- Visiting times are 1 pm to 3 pm and 5 pm to 7 pm
- A maximum of two named family members will be able to visit daily for a maximum of two hours in either an afternoon or evening visiting slot.
- Visits for patients at end of life are able to be offered more flexible visiting.
Other ways of staying in touch
We will continue to make available the services and equipment that allow patients to keep in contact with their families virtually and over the telephone.
Letters to Loved Ones – more than 4,000 letters have been printed and hand-delivered to inpatients staying in our hospitals. Find out how you can send a letter to your loved one.
Talking to Loved Ones allows you to speak to an inpatient via a communications app on an iPod on one of our wards. Speak to the Sister or Charge Nurse on the ward to arrange a chat or find out more.