COVID-19 FAQs: Self-isolation upon arrival to the UK
Please see advice below.
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Self-isolation upon arrival to the UK
Update - 31 July 2020
Health and care workers must self-isolate on arrival/return to England from high-risk countries.
Registered health and care professionals travelling to the England from high-risk countries will be required to self-isolate for 14 days, the government has confirmed. Please read full press release here.
Please check further details on the governmental website.
The current list of countries exempt from self-isolation measures is available on GOV.UK. Those healthcare workers from countries on the exemption list that made a transit stop in a high-risk country may also be required to self-isolate.
We will provide you with an update should this advice from the Government change.
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The current advice from the Department of Health and Social Care (as of 31/7/20) is that: “Anyone coming from a country that is not on the approved list of travel corridors will be required to self-isolate for 14 days. We encourage employers to consider this as part of recruitment and not bank on being able to have staff in post in the first fortnight after they arrive, especially as countries can be added or removed at very short notice.
Overseas doctors will have to discuss the self-isolation and its impact on the start date with their respective UK Trusts.
Trainees are urged to plan their accommodation in advance, and arrange hospital accommodation if available.
The College has asked Trusts to assist trainees by bearing (or contributing to) accommodation expenses for the self-isolation period and identifying someone from the trust to be the trainees' main point of contact.
The UK Government has published details of How to Self-Isolate on arrival to the UK.
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