As Canada faces protests against vaccine mandates, the British government is backing away from all compulsory vaccination requirements, including for health care workers.
The government had been under increasing pressure to drop compulsory vaccination for health care staff. The Royal College of Midwives said the requirement would have had catastrophic consequences for maternity service and led to thousands of workers losing their jobs. NHS “leaders have always been clear there are risks as well as benefits to mandating the COVID-19 vaccination for all health and social care staff,” Danny Mortimer, deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, told the Observer recently. Compulsory jabs “will reduce front-line NHS staff numbers even further and lead to more gaps in capacity at a time of intense pressure and patient demand.”
He defended the U-turn in government policy by saying that the nature of the pandemic had changed. The public is better protected because of the massive booster shot program, he said. And the Omicron variant is causing less severe illness and hospitalization than the earlier Delta variant. As a result, Mr. Javid said that it was “no longer proportionate to require vaccination as a condition of employment.
Governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have also begun to ease some of their regulations.
Don’t think its getting scrapped they are meeting to discuss with experts, however health will always trump staffing.
The cognitive dissonance is strong here.
Canada Hire Back Nurses Vaccine 1-2/ Booster 3 does not stop the spread of CV19, you still spread covid 19/ you still get Covid 19. Reality is whether boosted 1-2-3-4-5 or 10 times YOU WILL GET COVID. Hire back our healthcare workers - it is immoral and unethical to do otherwise
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