Byland
- Specialism
- Elderly
- Visiting Times
- 2pm-4pm and 6pm-8pm
- Ward Manager
- Biju Varughese
- Location
- Second floor, Strayside Wing, Harrogate District Hospital
- Get in touch
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- Telephone: 01423 555318
- Alternative: 01423 555319
Visiting times
Ward visiting times and contact details for Harrogate District Hospital.
Patient visiting guidance
Please do not visit if you have symptoms of a respiratory illness (cold/flu-like illness) or you have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 10 days.
Symptoms include:
- High temperature, fever or chills
- New, continuous cough
- A loss or alteration to taste or smell
- Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- Headache that is unusual or longer lasting than usual
- Diarrhoea, feeling sick or being sick
- Muscle aches or pains that are not due to exercise
- Runny/stuffy nose, sore throat
Visitors – please help keep patients, staff and other visitors safe by doing the following:
- Anyone visiting the hospitals will be required to wear a mask provided by the hospital.
- Wear your mask over your nose and mouth during your visit, do not put it under your nose or lower it to talk. Please discuss with staff if lip reading is required.
- Wash or sanitise your hands on entering the ward and the bay.
- Do not sit on the patient’s bed.
- Do not walk around the bay, please just stay with your relative.
- Patients may have two visitors for 1 hour between the hours of 2:00pm and 4:00pm.
- On leaving the bay and the ward, wash or sanitise your hands.
- Visiting may change at short notice if a bay requires temporary closure for an infection or due to changes in national guidance.
Visits to patients who have COVID-19 may occur in exceptional circumstances, as agreed with the Ward Manager.
Children under the age of 12
Children under the age of 12 years are welcome to visit relatives however, this needs to be checked with the Nurse In Charge on the ward. Wards are busy and sometimes what a child or young person could observe may upset them, or equipment and poorly patients that maybe in the bay with their relative could distress them. Children unfortunately pick up viruses themselves and we would want to check that they are well prior to coming onto the ward visiting a relative that is already ill.
Alternatively, if patients are well enough they could meet their young relatives at the coffee shop at the main entrance of Harrogate District Hospital which would be a better environment for children.
Outpatients
Outpatients visiting one of our hospitals for an appointment may have one person accompanying them if required.