NHS staff will be legally required to have the Covid jab under new plans to crack down on transmissions in hospitals, it’s reported. Tens of thousands of Brits are believed to have caught the…
If the scheme gets the green light, being vaccinated would become a condition of employment at the NHS, it's believed.It comes amid the huge success of the UK's rollout
, which is believed to be responsible for recent low death tolls - despite rising cases of the Indian mutation. Almost half of all adults in England will have had their second dose within days, while more than half of all people in their 30s have been inoculated in just over a fortnight.Around 8,000 hospital patients who caught the bug after their admission died, according to NHS figuresMinisters are already set to green-light proposals to oblige care home workers to be vaccinatedBut the publication found more than a fifth of Covid deaths at some hospitals happened after patients were infected on wards.
Consultation on making the jab a requirement for workers at care homes closed last week. It's understood the proposal will go ahead."This has been driven by feedback from the social care consultation on mandating."It would save lives and there is precedent with the guidance for doctors to get the hepatitis B vaccine."A study published in the British Medical Journal in February found lower Covid vaccination rates among ethnic minority healthcare workers compared to white staff.