‘Heroic’ care home nurses self-isolate to help resident with poor mental health

Two nurses in Derbyshire have been hailed as heroes after agreeing to self-isolate to help a care home resident who has poor mental health. 

They’ve agreed to quarantine so they can take a resident in her 60’s back to her family in Poland, where relatives can care for her.

A judge at the Court of Protection, which considers issues relating to people who lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves, approved the plan after deciding the move was in the resident’s best interests. 

He was told that she’d be able fly to Poland without needing to isolate on arrival if she had a Covid-19 vaccination, but was also told the nurses who’d have to accompany her would have to self-isolate when they got back to the Midlands.

Mr Justice Hayden described the nurses’ sacrifice as heroic:

It’s not yet known where the nurses will have to isolate once they land, though it’s thought they may be spending at least five days in a hotel.

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