SamBally
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The government has finished a consultation about making Covid vaccines compulsory for health and care staff in England They intend to bring in new regulations to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for anyone deployed by a registered person delivering Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated activities who has direct, face-to-face contact with service users. This includes health and care staff with clinical and non-clinical roles, for example: care workers, health care assistants, nurses, paramedics, ODPs, receptionists, managers, ward clerks, porters and cleaners.
This covers quite a lot of things like all NHS patient services, personal care in the home and in care homes whether public or private. Anyone likely to interact with vulnerable people receiving care in health and social care settings including, but not limited to, hospitals, GP practices and also in a person’s home are in scope.
The government laid new regulations in Parliament on 9 November 2021 which are still subject to parliamentary passage but are expected to come into force by 1 April 2022. For everyone to be fully vaccinated (first two doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine) by this date, unvaccinated people will need to have had their first dose by 3 February 2022.
Similarly to the requirement to have COVID vaccinations in care homes, the new regulations will make it a condition of deployment. Whilst employers should make all efforts to persuade staff to have the vaccine and look at redeployment options away from direct face-to-face roles, where this is not possible, employers may have no choice but to dismiss people who continue to refuse the vaccine, without an allowable exemption, by 1 April 2022.
Excellent news. No more unqualified people declaring "it's an experimental vaccine" and we will wait for up to ten years to see if it's safe or not before we decide to take it or not.
This covers quite a lot of things like all NHS patient services, personal care in the home and in care homes whether public or private. Anyone likely to interact with vulnerable people receiving care in health and social care settings including, but not limited to, hospitals, GP practices and also in a person’s home are in scope.
The government laid new regulations in Parliament on 9 November 2021 which are still subject to parliamentary passage but are expected to come into force by 1 April 2022. For everyone to be fully vaccinated (first two doses of an approved COVID-19 vaccine) by this date, unvaccinated people will need to have had their first dose by 3 February 2022.
Similarly to the requirement to have COVID vaccinations in care homes, the new regulations will make it a condition of deployment. Whilst employers should make all efforts to persuade staff to have the vaccine and look at redeployment options away from direct face-to-face roles, where this is not possible, employers may have no choice but to dismiss people who continue to refuse the vaccine, without an allowable exemption, by 1 April 2022.
Excellent news. No more unqualified people declaring "it's an experimental vaccine" and we will wait for up to ten years to see if it's safe or not before we decide to take it or not.