ON PREMISES: HOSPITALS & HEALTHCARE
“A majority of people in 12 out of 14 major countries say they are going to be nervous about leaving their homes if businesses are allowed to reopen.”
IS TECHNOLOGY THE ANSWER?
The Government has just revealed some of the measures to gradually ease lockdown and get the economy and society moving forward again. It has been an unprecedented few months and the impact on businesses and livelihoods has been vast.
In the healthcare sector, frontline workers have become our blue army, defending our most vulnerable people from this new global threat. We have also seen reports that London’s Nightingale Hospital - a real feat of swift facility construction - will be ‘put on standby’ due to limited requirement.
Gradually, we are making progress, but the human cost of COVID has been huge and it looks set to increase each week until we find a vaccine.
Meanwhile, those suffering from other illnesses and conditions face a difficult choice. Do they isolate, postpone treatment, or risk infection and go ahead with consultations and medication?
The UK Government has implored for the latter - emphasising that our NHS can cope and that it is ‘open for business’. The fear is real though, and the message to ‘stay at home’ has been relatively successful.
One solution is the track and trace technology currently under development. First trialled on the Isle of Wight, there is hope that this will allow us to start to
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After two months of the UK lockdown, the Government believes we are past the peak of COVID-19 deaths. Here, Peter Luff, President at Ipsos Retail Performance, explores some of the ways healthcare facilities can deploy technology to help keep our communities safe.
return to some sort of normality but be swiftly alerted to any realistic threat of infection according to our movements and interactions.
Fundamentally, this kind of technology is about providing reassurance, isolating cases and keeping people safe. A recent Ipsos poll found that even if governments decide to reopen the economy from a COVID-19 lockdown, safety has to be at the forefront of their planning. A majority of people in 12 out of 14 major countries say they are going to be nervous about leaving their homes if businesses are allowed to reopen.
If we have spent upwards of eight weeks practicing careful social distancing, the eventual lifting of restrictions is going to feel like a bit of a shock.
Under normal circumstances, going to a hospital for a routine procedure would not equate to debilitating fear, but with added risks attached to being out and about, it’s in the best interests of the patient as well as the hospital to provide some level of quantifiable reassurance that an environment is safe.
So, while the track and trace apps are interrogated and refined, there are some other tools which can help maintain safe social distancing, enable our healthcare centres and hospitals to treat non-COVID conditions, and keep visitors and patients calm and reassured.
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