{"id":498,"date":"2026-07-30T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/visiting-the-wards\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:36:03","slug":"visiting-the-wards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/visiting-the-wards\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the Wards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visiting Your Loved One in Hospital<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visiting Hours<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our wards operate an open visiting policy.  Visitors may be requested to leave temporarily during ward rounds or while patient care is being provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before Visiting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help protect our patients, staff and visitors, please do not visit if you are feeling unwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before visiting, please ask yourself:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Are you feeling unwell?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have you had sickness or diarrhoea in the last 48 hours?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you have a fever, high temperature, or signs of an infection?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do you have a new cough, cold, sore throat, or flu-like symptoms?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you answer <strong>yes<\/strong> to any of the above, please postpone your visit until you are well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Your Loved One in Hospital Visiting Hours Our wards operate an open visiting policy. Visitors may be requested to leave temporarily during ward rounds or while patient care is being provided. Before Visiting To help protect our patients, staff and visitors, please do not visit if you are feeling unwell. Before visiting, please ask<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Visiting Your Loved One in Hospital Visiting Hours Our wards operate an open visiting policy. Visitors may be requested to leave temporarily during ward rounds or while patient care is being provided. Before Visiting To help protect our patients, staff and visitors, please do not visit if you are feeling unwell. Before visiting, please ask","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/clinicalneuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}