We take the safety of our team and patient’s seriously and will never compromise on that.

Read our full Safeguarding Policy for Covid-19

I’ve been asked quite a lot if any changes are happening at the clinic so thought I’d share our approach and why we’ve taken it.

Right back in June 2020 when we re-opened the clinic our guiding principle was safety first, so we spent hours researching the, at that time, limited knowledge regarding COVID when formulating our policy. What there is plenty known about is viruses, they’ve been on the planet longer than us, so we’ve set the clinic up to keep you safe from all nearly all viral infections, COVID included.  

I only believe in doing things in the best way possible so whilst the minimum standards would be wearing a mask, apron and gloves plus cleaning between each patient this doesn’t account for all the measures that could be implemented if safety is the guiding principle rather than cost.

Aerosol transmission has been factored into our policy since day one and is by far the most costly of all the measures we have taken. This is the crux of why outdoor social contact is so much safer than indoor, the fresh air literally kills the virus!

How we have implemented this is by placing a gap between all appointments, maintaining an airflow through the clinic from outside, installing sophisticated air filtration units into all areas (the filters alone cost £100 each) and upgrading the air extraction from each room, the biggest looks like a jet turbine. 

The real world effect of this is that you have about a 1% chance of breathing anything the patient before you did, we don’t allow high risk patients, so anyone with symptoms or isolating into the clinic, so the only air you are sharing is with your osteopath who are all fully vaccinated and take at least one COVID test per week. As a healthcare setting a visit to our clinic doesn’t make you a contact of anyone so there can be no self-isolation due to seeing us.

We won’t be changing anything in a hurry because we are truly COVID secure and won’t compromise on that.

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Some validation for our approach that has been in place since June 2020 from the British Medical Journal, World Health Organisation and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention