Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance to hospitals on allowing both parents to visit their child in hospital at the same time.

NHS England’s guidance states that providers are expected to facilitate visits and to do so in a risk-managed way. Visiting should be accommodated for at least one hour per day and ideally for longer. Visiting policies also need to reflect that COVID-19 is in general circulation. National Health Service trusts and other organisations have responsibility to make local risk assessments of the appropriate level of visiting which can be implemented.