The Government has launched a consultation into making Covid vaccinations mandatory for care home staff working with elderly residents, as NHS England data has revealed that vaccine rates among staff at older adult care homes are below SAGE’s recommended level in more than half of England’s local authorities. Sky News has the story.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) today announced the five-week consultation on making a jab a “condition of deployment”.
Staff, care providers, residents and their families, and other stakeholders are being asked to take part, with officials hoping to find out potential impacts on staffing and safety.
The DHSC is also looking to see how the scheme could be implemented and who could be exempt.
Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News: “Our consultation is very focused on the condition of deployment.” …
Some providers have already made a coronavirus vaccine a requirement.
Following the report, a decision is expected to be made this summer.
SAGE has said that 80% of carers and 90% of residents need to be vaccinated for a minimum level of protection against outbreaks of the virus.
Nearly half of care homes for older people in England have not hit this target, according to the Government.
The latest numbers show that 78.9% of care staff for elderly people have had a jab in England.
The Telegraph has more on vaccination rates among care home staff in England.
Figures published by NHS England… show that 86 out of 149 local authorities have not reached an 80% immunisation threshold for employees, and in 22 areas less than 70% of staff have had a first jab.
Lambeth in south London had the lowest uptake at 50.1%. The figures show the proportion of employees in older adult care homes who have been vaccinated has risen just 10 percentage points in two months.
More than 96,000 eligible staff have not received a vaccine, the figures suggest.
Last month, leaked Cabinet plans revealed that both the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary had requested a change in the law to make Covid vaccination mandatory for care home staff. The leaked document read:
The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State [Mr Hancock] have discussed on several occasions the progress that is being made to vaccinate social care workers against Covid and have agreed – in order to reach a position of much greater safety for care recipients – to put in place legislation to require vaccinations among the workforce.
The document noted that similar requirements were also being considered for healthcare workers, such as those who work on hospital wards.
The Sky News report is worth reading in full.
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Would the invisible coward (77th Brigade?) like to leave a rational comment re. the downvote?
I’m not sensitive – just curious – and willing to correct any genuine misunderstanding rather than assume that it comes from a vaccine promoter.
So no jab no job becomes reality.
Another exposure of govt lies and a coach and horses through the Nuremberg code.
No mention in the Sky article about the government discharging infected patients to care homes last March. Wonder why?
Those patients were dumped into care homes and largely left to their own devices because of the fear engendered to staff from the govt ’emotional hard hitting messages’ care of SPI-B.
The forgotten scandal. I hope there is some of justice for those people at some point.
To be honest, I’m not sure what alternative could realistically achieved a different outcome, given the problem of nosocomial infection.
Most who died – as we know from the data – would have succumbed to some infection soon. The average death from Covid was higher than the overall age of death generally.
The problem has been not excessive deaths for older citizens, but the pretty ordinary mortality that has been exaggerated as an excuse to panic the population.
People die.
The hospitals were sending out patients to clear wards ready for the huge influx of CV19 patients they were expecting, but without checking that they were well enough to be discharged or not infected with CV19.
They should have been discharged to the Nightingale hospitals for convalescence care, and until they were sure they weren’t carried CV19 with them.
GPs and hospitals all but abandoned the elderly, and frankly, everyone else, because they were understandably terrified of the virus. A lot of frontline staff caught it and died, reinforcing the fear.
The death count for people at home was the one group consistently above the annual norm.
A full audit and inquiry is needed, to make sure that mistakes are not repeated.
A smaller percentage of hospital and care home staff died of Covid than the general population (though granted a great many of them are young and female both of which helps).
It’s been deliberate!
EVERY policy is increasing the cull, some short term and direct, some medium/long term indirect and on the basis of psy ops to lull people into it and ignoring the dangers.
Where are the lawyers? Free legal advice to any care worker who chooses to decline an experimental biological. Looks like care homes will be struggling to fill their vacancies. They already have a problem with staff shortages. By the way, if all the residents are vaccinated with these amazing full proof vaccines, what is the worry?
Well it’s started. Fathers care home have said they won’t make it mandatory yet to have had a covid vaccine to go on their premises to see my parent because not everyone has been offered such vaccines currently. So when everyone has been offered, regardless of any conditions which make vaccination not possible, I assume they won’t let me on their premises. It’s outrageous. But the black market has also started as a friend has offered me their vaccine appointment care, it doesn’t have a name on it. It’s going to be such a fight with this vaccination coercion. Where does all this stop .. all visitors must be vaccinated, all delivery staff, all other health and social care staff? It’s wrong and must be resisted.
Ask the care home why, if all the residents have been vaccinated, visitors need to be vaccinated also. They do not insist every visitor to the care home has a flu vaccination after also. Might also be worth asking them if they will sign an undertaking to compensate you for any serious side effects the vaccine causes you if it gets to the point there they won’t let you in without one.
Unfortunately it seems the vaccination of everyone is what the government are determined on.
Firepersons, ambulance crews, funeral directors, the milkman, paperboy and Tesco driver ?
Good.
Hopefully that means the residents will not be pushed over the edge by the side-effects of the vaccines.
Hope they all quit.
Who’s next, doctors & nurses nurses?
Are the govt proposing to make it mandatory for anyone who works in a hospital or doctor’s surgery? If not, why not? Could it be that NHS workers are heavily unionised and have political clout, whereas care home workers do not?
If they win with the easy care homes then they will move to the NHS, social care, teachers perhaps. Then keep going and try to make an experimental vaccine with only emergency approval mandatory to the whole population and children. Why do they want to do this?
Yes Wendy – 100% correct. That is clearly the plan
Your diagnosis may be correct – although the health unions/associations haven’t distinguished themselves in this.
The care home workers are likely to vote with their feet.
And NHS staff.
While I understand the sentiment that won’t do anything for the poor residents of these institutions. One of them being my mother. I don’t want her cared for by anyone that has been forced into a mandatory vaccination but she does need to be cared for. I therefore will hold the government 100% responsible for any harm that comes to her if her care is diminished in any way thanks to this evil policy of forced vaccination. I don’t blame any care worker that quits but I do absolutely blame the Government – particularly that bastard Wankcock for any harm that results.
Just completed the on-line public consultation as my mum is in a home. The questions are totally biased to get the answers the Government want. They also admit quite openly they have an intention to extend this mandate to anyone entering a care home on a regular basis including cleaners, kitchen staff, medical professionals, volunteers and even family care givers who assist with the care of elderly relatives. They claim – believe it if you like (and I don’t) – that other relatives of inmates, sorry residents, won’t have to be vaccinated. I have no doubt that if this policy is allowed to come in I will be banned from seeing my own mother within a matter of months. This is utterly abhorrent and I will do anything I can to fight this and call out any despicable, cruel, evil, piece of shit that in any way supports such a policy.
Shutting the stable door after the horse has been turned into cans of dogmeat. NOW they worry about inhabitants of care homes after so many were slaughtered.
It seems to be thought by most experts that the vaccine does not stop you getting or spreading Covid, it just reduces your symptoms if you do catch it. This means a vaccinated care home staff member could catch Covid but the vaccine reduces their symptoms to such an extent they do not notice or recognise them as Covid. They will then go into work and spread the virus to all the residents. Nor imagine they are not vaccinated, their symptoms will be much worse so they will isolate at home and not spread the virus. Surely then it will be better not to vaccinate care home staff?
Exactly (assuming the existence of exogenous viruses and of contagion!). Where is the common sense. It really is emperors new clothes thinking.
This is absolutely nothing to do with protecting the residents/clients, as this vaccine and its flu counterpart do not prevent the person becoming infected or infectious but merely mitigate symptoms. Therefore this requirement is to reduce absence due to sickness of care staff and in the wider context to reduce hospitalisations, it is a financial and political policy decision and not a public health one.
Shortage of staff upcoming.
Resulting in less places, worse care, more residents dying prematurely.
Just as planned.
I work in a housing project which provides short term residential support to anyone experiencing a period of crisis in their mental health. People only stay for a few days and we don’t provide nursing care. There’s no age cut off point so we do sometimes have people over 65 provided that they are independent and don’t have significant health problems. Much to my dismay we are registered with the Care Quality Commission as a care home so mandatory injections are likely to be enforced. We’ve already been told to ask any new admission whether they’ve had both the flu and covid vaccine. This information is recorded and reported to the Department of Health who phone on a daily basis to collect the stats. All very sinister.
Can they legally make an unlicensed drug or vaccine mandatory for anyone??
In light of how opposition is being summarily dismissed it would seem they THINK they can. It’s up to us to continue to shout NO!
I have done their consultation and it feels like a decision already made, so that everybody coming to a care home to do any type of work will be mandated to have a covid vaccination AND it appears family members who refuse may be barred from contact visiting. I find it a disgrace. I won’t be having a covid vaccination, I might be except as I have allergies but only if these allergies fall into their decided categories. So do I not get to ever be in the same room as my father again?
One of the mRNA vaccines made it very clear male trial candidates would not be allowed to ejaculate into a woman of child bearing age for a defined period of time. Despite this, experimental biological are ongoing, so were all guinea pigs given the same advice? No, I didn’t think so. What were the drug makers worried about? Did they run these trials on animals first?
J& J suspended in USA. Has the MSM here even mentioned this in the UK. AZ suspended in many countries. Now young women on social media complaining of heavy menstural bleeding, and irregular periods post vaccination. Any GPs aware of this? If so, you sure have kept it under wraps.
This is an absolute disgrace forcing young women, often badly paid staff, to have by coercion a vaccine, which have a special high risk of acute side effects of the vaccine and concerning but still unknown side effects in the menstrual cycle and long term studies has not finished to say that are safe for reproduction.
Can’t we have this Olympic, well versed in oratory, Lord Sumption climb down to the real world and give astute legal advice in something which clearly can’t pass the legal hurdle. We need practical legal help now instead of generalized waffly rhetoric.
Of course the major operational issue is that care homes, like hospitals, are chronically understaffed already and many staff come from population groups more dubious of vaccinations. So you could mandate this, but when care homes are facing 10-20% staffing deficits and people start dying from lack of care…well, Boris will have some splainen to do.