The former Health Secretary has declared that NHS workers must be coerced into having both doses of a Covid vaccine before the onset of winter, while criticising unvaccinated staff for dismissing “all the scientific and clinical advice”. However, the current Health Secretary Sajid Javid wishes to delay the implementation of mandatory vaccinations for NHS employees until April of next year to avoid a severe staffing shortage over the Christmas period. The MailOnline has more.
Hancock, who quit in June after breaching his own social distancing rules by kissing a married colleague, said the move would act as another “tool to save lives” during what is projected to be a harsh winter for the health service.
He also scorned NHS staff who are still not vaccinated and don’t have a valid medical reason, warning that it was their “moral duty” and that they had “ignored all the scientific and clinical advice”.
Ministers have for weeks been considering whether to make Covid jabs compulsory within the health service after pushing through the requirement for care home workers in the summer.
But last week the Health Secretary Sajid Javid appeared to push back the inoculation deadline until April amid warnings from NHS bosses that introducing a ‘no jab, no job’ policy now could leave hospitals understaffed at a crucial period.
Writing in the the Telegraph, Hancock, who was Health Secretary for three years, warned ministers against delaying compulsory vaccinations for the sector into the new year.
He said: “having looked at all the evidence, I am now convinced we must require vaccination for everyone who works not just in social care but the NHS, and get it in place as fast as possible… so as we prepare to a face a difficult winter, let’s use all the tools we have to save lives.
Imagine the cancer patient, already battling another deadly disease, being cared for by a nurse. Who can put their hand on their heart and say they’d be happy to tell that patient their nurse could have the vaccine, but has chosen against all scientific and clinical advice to ignore it.”
Hancock said doctors and nurses had a “moral duty” to get the Covid vaccine to protect their patients.
A SAGE adviser said today it was a “general standard of hygiene” for anyone in a frontline role in contact with vulnerable patients to be double vaccinated against Covid. But they stopped short of calling for jabs to be made compulsory, saying this should only be done as a “last resort”.
NHS England figures show only a small minority of NHS staff are still to get two doses of the vaccine, with more than nine in 10 doctors and nurses having already received both jabs. Health chiefs warned yesterday that hospitals are already at peak winter levels of bed occupancy despite it being early in the season.
All care home workers will be required to have had two doses of the Covid vaccine from Thursday or lose their jobs, under a policy brought in while Hancock was Health Secretary.
But the Government’s own figures suggest this will lead to some 40,000 care home workers losing their jobs in the already understaffed sector. This could lead to the closure of up to 500 homes, putting extra pressure on hospitals which will be unable to discharge patients well enough to be taken off the wards.
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Those three little words: ”Matt Hancock demands…..”
Oh dear.
When will we see the last of this dishonourable and dishonoured greasy oik?
Vermine like Hancock are never going to be permanently banished, no matter how egregious their behaviour; they’re part of the plan, they “have each other’s back” – besides, throwing him out properly might encourage him to talk more openly about his employers – and imagine the dirt he’s got…
It’s obviously all false. Africa is barely hit and not jagged.
If there are no jags at winter they will see how its not all that bad. Therefore no need to mandate it.
Also how about not being totalitarian and allow people to make their own choices.
Good grief , how did the Care Home Killer get parole so quickly?
Based on all the latest Vaccine Surveillance Reports which show more cases per 100,000 in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated in every age group from 30 upwards, I’d be more worried if I was being treated by a vaccinated nurse.
Those are facts.
Why is he still peddling the vaccinated-don’t-transmit myth I wonder….
What right does that twat have to demand ANYTHING?!
Who cares what he thinks? Gimp
In that photo he looks like he has Bell’s palsy
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Who does that philandering fuckwit think he is lecturing me about my morals as an nhs employee? Despite his best attempts at destroying the nhs and depriving pretty much everyone of a decent health service, it’s people like me (a dirty unvaxed) who haven’t shied away from seeing patients face-to-face and have tried our utmost not to let nonsensical covid restrictions impede their treatment. What compassionate acts has he ever done for anyone? Shame on him.
Well said! Esp. ‘Philandering fuckwit’
Thank you 😊
Only two more days before Savage Jabbit’s policy of no jab, no job comes into play with regard to care workers.
Have just seen an article in the Mail quoting care bosses who are pleading for a U -turn, saying that as many as 500 care homes may have to close if this goes through.
I’m betting on a U-turn before Thursday just as I bet on vaccine passports being ditched a few days before their supposed introduction. It’s how the government operates these days. Disgraceful.
It won’t be ditched. The intention is to cause as much chaos and mayhem in the Care Home sector as possible.
The NHS is also scheduled for major chaos, just to keep everyone on their toes.
My moral duty, Mr Hancock, is not to take your ‘vaccines ‘.
Loads of readers at the Telegraph telling Hancock to F*** Off in the comments area under the article, (rightly) asking why is the paper paying this pantsdown failure to espouse his rubbish? Could it be that it’s funded by their (Gates-money) Global Health Security section?
Almost certainly!
He’s a slimy psychopath, Moral duty to follow the science? Science suggests that the jab does not stop you spreading COVID. The whole ‘get jabbed to protect everyone else’ stunt has flopped. Come on guys, for how long are we going to accept these lies and totalitarian regime? Me thinks a revolution need starting.
Are those prison bars behind him?
How I wish.
Has he no shame?
No.
FOI request. What was the nature of the ‘abusive text’ in relation to the former Health Secretary?
Sincerely
Frustrated of Nuneaton
Funny how the unter mensch can keep their jobs until April to avoid staff shortages isn’t it? Come April though they are deemed to much of a risk to patients.
Yet another narrative fail that goes unexamined by our compliant media.
In one of my more optimistic moments I imagined that Boris is on our side and suggested the April date because he knows that the whole scam will have fallen apart by then.
But then I woke up and thought, no, Boris has been captured like the rest of the government, and they are just delaying the implementation a bit.
Leopards don’t change their spots!
Captured? No, he really is a great fat communist fraud
“A tool to save lives”
…well, at least he got the noun right.
‘Booster jabs might be needed EVERY winter, SAGE adviser says as minister admits there are plans for ‘an annual Covid vaccination programme’ — but millions still haven’t had vital third shot’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10177183/Booster-vaccines-given-winter-SAGE-adviser-reveals.html
The jab that goes on jabbing!
And to think that, before the jab, both sides of his face were the same…
“Imagine the cancer patient, already battling another deadly disease, being cared for by a nurse. Who can put their hand on their heart and say they’d be happy to tell that patient their nurse could have the vaccine, but has chosen against all scientific and clinical advice to ignore it.”
Yes, I can imagine that scenario, because I may come across it in January when, hopefully, I will have my annual CT and full bone scans. As someone who has not been stabbed, but has incurable and inoperable cancer, I don’t give a flying fuck. Apparently I have also had Covid (similar to the Black Death), but I had no symptoms whatsoever. And for the stupid, like Wanksock, cancer is deadly whereas Covid is not to the vast majority of people who get it. Maybe because I have not been stabbed I had no symptoms, maybe not. My wife apparently had it at the same time – she also had no symptoms, and has not been stabbed either.
Why did the Telegraph give him a platform?
It’s a conundrum, right enough.
What jabs do nurses currently need to work, if any? I’d imagine hep b, mmr, bcg, etc are all mandatory.
I think the safety argument is the only one that really stands up if this is the case. Once these vaccines are licensed, I cannot see any leg to stand on if there are already mandatory vaccines for certain professions like nursing
If you do a bit more research, e.g. on this site, you will see the legs they have to stand on.
Thanks, I will look into it
”Once these vaccines are licensed..…” And why are they even being used unlicensed? Ah yes – because they’ve been approved for ”emergency use”. Approved. Not licensed. This could be perhaps why the Coronavirus Act was extended so that we might remain in a ”state of emergency”, could it?
Why is any newspaper willing to give this man the space to tell us what he thinks? No one has any respect for his views.
He should be the first defendant in Nuremberg 2. And hanging is too good for him.
Do we need to go back to London and chant ‘arrest Matt Hancock’ again? I rather enjoyed it last time although it doesn’t seem that long ago!
Well chosen image of Hancock at the top of the article. A look that says ‘chancer’.
Almost as though only one half of his face has remembered to appear friendly, the other half yet to catch up. Overall assessment: just a little too dim to pull off the evil expected of him. Which is where Javid comes in…
Either that or it’s guillain-barré. The overlords probably made him actually get it, to teach him a lesson for being so dim.
To me, he just looks like the gormless wanker that he is.
Double vaccinated? They are panicking about that now.
Vaccinated patients are dying of Covid due to waning immunity, says Dr Susan Hopkins
The Indy.
Pfizer Data Scandal
Hancock’s arguments are easily picked apart. I’ll take just three of his points:
Protection of patients is a moral duty. Yes, but vaccinating NHS staff will not necessarily protect patients. Even Johnson has admitted that the vaccines do not stop people catching the disease and passing it on to others. Also, has Hancock not heard of natural immunity? This provides far better protection than vaccine-induced immunity (he really should listen to Dr Robert Malone on this point – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otVBrSBavvo). This is important because it is likely that those staff who have not been vaccinated will have acquired immunity from exposure to SARS-Cov-2.
The science of the Covid is comprehensively proven. Yes, the vaccines have been proven to be far from perfect. Even Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor at UKHSA, has admitted “older people who are double-jabbed are dying of the virus”.
The vaccine is estimated to have saved roughly 130,000 lives. That statement cannot be substantiated; there is no proof that the vaccination programme has prevented so many deaths.
It should be remembered that neither Halfcock nor Rabid Jabid have any qualification or experience in medicine or science. (Halfcock has a PPE that he thinks stands for Personal Protective Equipment so he’s almost got an ology.) So they’re both in thrall to any kind of scientific gobbledegook.
He says:
I’m not convinced that a degree in politics is likely to give him the background to interpret rather complex medical data.
I am convinced that a degree in politics is exactly the qualification required to make grandiose statements suggesting that there is an absolute right way, and that it is the way he’s been advocating all along. He’s an expert in sophistry, not science.