Call to delay compulsory Covid vaccines for NHS staff

Call to delay compulsory Covid vaccines for NHS staff The deadline for health workers to have a Covid vaccination should be delayed to prevent staff shortages in England, the Royal College of GPs has said.

NHS staff must have a first jab by 3 February and be fully vaccinated by 1 April to continue in frontline roles. BBC News

See also:

• Covid: Wales could recruit non-jabbed English NHS staff BBC News
• Covid-19: 'We'll be second-class citizens if self-isolation rules go' BBC News
• Covid cases are already rising again among primary school children, official data shows The Daily Mail
• UK health chiefs are now officially keeping tabs on 'stealth' version of Omicron The Daily Mail
• Anti-vax bomb hoaxer jailed after sparking school evacuation and NHS major incident The Daily Mail
• 'Several thousand' NHS staff still set to lose jobs even if vaccine mandate delayed, warns health service chief The Daily Telegraph
• Forcing NHS refuseniks to have the jab will make matters worse The Daily Telegraph
• Mandatory Covid jabs policy divides NHS leaders in England as deadline nears The Guardian
• Long Covid: nearly 2m days lost in NHS staff absences in England The Guardian
• ‘It’s not an exact science’: In defence of the Covid-19 modellers The Independent
• Attacks against Covid modellers undermine future pandemic response, say Sage scientists The Independent