The NHS will begin sacking staff who have not had a Covid vaccine in just 16 days as the deadline to receive the first jab approaches on February 3rd, new guidance reveals. The Telegraph has more.
All frontline staff are required to have had two jabs by April 1, meaning the first dose must have been administered by Feb 3rd. More than 80,000 – 6% of the workforce – remain unvaccinated despite repeated efforts to boost take-up.
Last week, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) urged ministers to delay the rules, saying they could have a “catastrophic” impact on the delivery of services.
NHS guidance to employers says all frontline staff who have not been vaccinated should start being called into formal meetings from Feb 4th and warned that they face dismissal. Dismissal notices will start being issued from that day, with the notice period ending on March 31st.
Roles covered by the rules include porters, receptionists and ward clerks as well as doctors and nurses.
NHS managers have been told they can redeploy frontline staff who will not be vaccinated into backroom roles that do not involve direct patient contact. But the guidance says they do not have to be concerned with finding “suitable alternative employment”, nor will redundancy payments be made to those who are dismissed.
Separate local guidance for GPs suggests creating different entrances and exits for unvaccinated staff to avoid them crossing paths with patients. The advice, from the Cambridgeshire local medical committee, says this would be a “pragmatic” approach.
The NHS guidance says organisations should warn regulators if they identify areas likely to be hit by staffing shortages that could threaten patient safety.
Workers will be asked to show Covid passes to prove they have had their jabs, or for evidence to show that they are exempt.
The Government’s own impact assessment says 73,000 NHS staff in England could be lost because of the rules. There are currently vacancies for almost 100,000 NHS jobs, including 40,000 nursing posts.
Last week Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, told the Commons the Government remained committed to plans to introduce compulsory jabs for all NHS frontline staff from April.
He said those who failed to get vaccinated were “standing on the shoulders” of others who had taken steps to help protect the population, adding that, since consultation began, take-up of jabs by NHS workers had risen from 92% to 94%.
There it is in black-and-white: they’re not being sacked because they’re deemed unsafe, but because others have been vaccinated and they’re perceived as free riders. It’s not about patient safety (how much difference will the last 6% really make to transmission, even if you assume the vaccines are highly effective against Omicron, which they’re not) but about vindictive, self-defeating politics that will only worsen the NHS staffing crisis and mistreat thousands of hard-working people who were heroes until last week. The Government needs to U-turn on this now before it makes yet another unforced error and further undermines its authority and support.
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According to the German Health Minister: “No one is vaccinated against their will. Even compulsory vaccination leads to voluntary vaccination at the end.”
I think what he is trying to say is ‘We have ways of making you ‘volunteer’…’
https://twitter.com/argonerd/status/1483889203360550916?cxt=HHwWiMC-xcrX6pcpAAAA
This has to be one of the most detestable things this government has sanctioned. Any sympathy one might harbour for Johnson as he faces possible loss of his job is totally missplaced. I’ll never forgive these sods if this action goes through.
I’m ashamed and demoralised to say that I have to have my first dose of the ‘clot shot’ tomorrow.
I work for an organisation that is regulated by the Care Quality Commission and has no choice but to invoke the Government’s fascist diktat.
I have, however, had it added to my personnel file that this jab was against my free will.
Unfortunately, I still have a mortgage and am in my 60s in an area where employment is notoriously hard to come by. Therefore I can’t afford to lose my current role.
I have instructed my wife to take legal action against my employer should the gene therapy have adverse effects.
I will be contacting my employer’s chief executive to see whether or not he knows that this policy contravenes the Nuremberg Code.
I look forward to a Mussolini and Clara Petacci outcome for the ‘Fat Dictator’ and ‘Princess Nut Nuts’
My father fought against this bollocks between 1939 and 1945 and I’m just glad that he’s not here to see this country become a fascist dictatorship.
Can anyone tell me why there are not class actions taking place against this mandate? It’s extreme coercion, which is illegal under the Nuremburg code. Why are hospital staff seemingly just accepting these dismissals? I think someone should inform Sunak that this is not the way we do things in England, as it’s possible he doesn’t know, not being a native of these shores…
Got to keep up the pretence that these jabs are effective and don’t have side effects. The medical profession has not covered itself in glory in the last two years, collaborating in this unethical medical experiment and coercion. Why do they think so many have resisted being jabbed? Could it possibly be that they have seen and treated those with the short term side effects with long term side effects yet to come? Jabbit knows he’s talking nonsense witnessed by the fact he had no reply to offer to Dr James who challenged him on TV a week or so ago
I’m just utterly disgusted at this. These people worked when there was no jab and were hailed as heroes. Now they are going to lose their jobs based on no science and based on a disgusting immoral act by this government that is shilling for big pharma. I cannot put in to words my disgust although I have tried to in an email to my MP for what it’s worth.
The thing that disgusts me the most is that I think MPs think they are following “the science” and is acting ethically when he is acting against the science and most definitely against sound moral principles.
Where are the moral leaders! Take an experimental drug with a questionable safety record with no liability for the manufacturer or lose your job is not full and informed consent – that is coercion plain and simple.
This is symptomatic of gross societal decay that this could even be framed as a moral act.
Where is the evidence that Covid infections in hospitals are caused more by unvaccinated than vaccinated staff? There doesn’t appear to be any. I suspect also that ethnic minorities will be disproportionately impacted by these sackings. Once they are removed no doubt our precious NHS will bleat on about it being overwhelmed and needing increased resources. It is interesting that when we were called on to go outside to clap for carers, the slogan was thank you NHS ie intended to include all the bureaucrats and hangers on. It really is a horrible Stalinist institution
That expression ‘standing on the shoulders of others’ when referring to unvaccinated NHS staff is very strange in this context. It implies that the vaccinated must be in some way disadvantaged as they are ‘carrying’ the unvaccinated? Surely the ‘fully vaccinated’ are the ones who are ‘completely safe’ and the unvaxxed are the dangerous ones? His turn of phrase here inadvertently suggests that being unvaxxed is actually a safer and more desirable thing – but then, what would we expect from such an intellectually challenged individual……
I simply do not understand how people can be sacked for this if taking a medical procedure was not part of their original work contract.
It’s beyond outrageous that an UNLICENSED and experimental drug can be forced upon people.
Or does the Coronacircus Act legalise these things?
So once injected a vaccinee can contract and transmit the virus they were “vaccinated” against. As a matter of fact, data coming out looks like vaccinees are more at risk for omicron? Why are healthcare workers being forced to get these vaccines? Why would they lose their job for not taking something that puts them at higher risk? It simply makes no sense. Something smells bad here. Anyone else smell it?
There’s also the heightened risk, estimated by Rr Robert Malone to be a factor of 4 or 5, of vaccine injury for the naturally immune, those who have had cvd19 and recovered.
When these covid mandates are made, they go into effect immediately. When they are ended we have to wait weeks to get our lives and freedoms back. Anyone else had enough of this bs? I have. See you at the weekend.
We owe those standing up to the policies of an increasingly totalitarian government a great debt.
Interestingly the comments in the Telegraph are closed.
Very depressing indeed. I don’t want to lose my job, as it is vital for my department, but I won’t have the so called jab.
If not to the BillZeBub-funded health-editors’ liking, DT Comments get ‘fixed’ so that only the author can see them. I was going to cancel my sub anyway, but that was the decider.
Where is the analysis of the impact on patient care of this deranged (and illegal) measure? How many patient’s lives will be saved by removing the infectious threat from un-jabbed staff (who are not more infectious than jabbed staff) and how many lives lost due to disrupted or cancelled treatment, extended waiting times? Has the NHS management even thought in these terms? It would appear not. They are hell bent on a doctrinal, jabbed-good,-unjabbed-bad policy.
Meanwhile, the jabs don’t prevent infection or spread, and wane away to complete inefficacy in 6 months.
By the autumn, will the NHS be firing staff who are not quadruple jabbed?
Maybe the Medical staff should just refuse to inject their co workers. Whatever happened to logical thinking. I have always avoided the NHS as I have seen a real change in their training. There is no encouragement to use their eyes or their initiative.
I also think all those staff who have made a personal decision not to be jabbed should start working together to create an alternative to the Union/Government run disaster that calls itself NHS.
Even the Minister referred to Immunity months ago.. Yet policy continues to ignore this key factor in individual risks of contracting or spreading the coronavirus. Several studies show immunity from vaccinations is becoming useless (as opposed to natural immunity which is adaptable to new variants) – yet vaccinations and boosters remain hard policy.
A NHS nurse requires years of expensive training and may have immunity from acquired infection – yet the govt is willing to throw the NHS into chaos because of ….I have no idea what…!!!!
CLOWN WORLD
is it madness, folly or a deliberate act. I’m starting to think the latter.
Can’t see them backing down because of the care workers that have already been fired. They would all need to be reinstated.
Vax-apartheid is here to stay.
Why has the author of this piece not mentioned the Purple Ribbon Group of NHS staff that have formed to refuse to accept the killer vaccines?
The government has shot itself in the foot with this utterly nonsensical, never mind immoral, policy.
Never mind illegal, too. vaccine coercion is illegal.
If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda. They want to rip on people for taking Ivermectin. I researched and saw the evidence on the internet. Research papers are on the internet for those who wants to see. Top respected world doctors are being under defamation by MSM and vaccine manufacturers. I won’t back down recommeding IVM. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
‘…Separate local guidance for GPs suggests creating different entrances and exits for unvaccinated staff to avoid them crossing paths with patients’.
What a load of bollox!
As is enforcing an unlicenced treatment / drug of questionable quality as a condition of employment. It is evil and unforgivable. Wicked.
I am numb with anger at the system, the regime and any state granted authority. I am a nurse in accident and emergency and am against all corrupt shit heads controlling us “the little people” who will be made to hand over our human rights. I’m not jabbed, don’t want to be but I have a family and a mortgage and earn a high income. I’m at a desperate crossroads! Any suggestions?
DONT GET INJECTED. If you accept two shots, next it will a a third, then a fourth and so on. Once you have had two, if you survive, you will think you might as well have one more as the other two were ok. They will keeping experimenting on you until you are dead, sterilised or lobotomised.
If you give in to a bully you will be a victim forever.
This letter was published in the BMJ then it just disappeared.
K Polyakova Consultant
Dear Editor
I have had more vaccines in my life than most people and come from a place of significant personal and professional experience in relation to this pandemic, having managed a service during the first 2 waves and all the contingencies that go with that.
Nevertheless, what I am currently struggling with is the failure to report the reality of the morbidity caused by our current vaccination program within the health service and staff population. The levels of sickness after vaccination is unprecedented and staff are getting very sick and some with neurological symptoms which is having a huge impact on the health service function. Even the young and healthy are off for days, some for weeks, and some requiring medical treatment. Whole teams are being taken out as they went to get vaccinated together.
Mandatory vaccination in this instance is stupid, unethical and irresponsible when it comes to protecting our staff and public health. We are in the voluntary phase of vaccination, and encouraging staff to take an unlicensed product that is impacting on their immediate health, and I have direct experience of staff… Read more »
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhuPd1gX2Oc
I might have been in the cockup or ‘threat to ensure uptake and then withdraw’ scheming camp initially, but this surely now looks like simply being part of the agenda, ensuring crisis and cutting cost in that sector, thereby also reducing the average life expectancy of the plebs even further (the main agenda anyway) and getting an even more obedient remaining workforce.
As a bonus, all this can and will be projected onto and blamed on the ‘selfish’ unvaccinated, of course.
I am afraid you are correct, ”this ain’t no technological breakdown, this is the road to hell”. The Powers that be do not care about losing NHS staff and they do not care that some NHS staff have not had the booster, the objective is clearly to get over a million NHS staff signed up to the vaccine mandate and this mandate is no temporary covid thing, I reckon this is now a mandate for life. We are on the road to digital techno, vaccination orientated health control and they need the NHS fully signed up to this hellish future.
There will be continuing vaccines for this, that and the other and if you are in the NHS you will be signed up to be injected with every one or you lose your job. Indeed as all medical training in the UK is done via the NHS, in future nobody can be trained as a doctor or a nurse unless they sign up for perpetual vaccinations.
And more than that I do not think this will stop with the NHS, first they came for the NHS’ then they came for the teachers, then they came for???????????????
Sorry I didn’t succumb to the Mass Formation that enabled the Criminals to hand out the Jim Jones Juice.Ive heard nothing of Sanctions working occasionally as a Nurse in Wales no letters,warnings or requests.Did really 60k staff loose their jobs in England without an eyebrow raised!.I know of no dismissed unvaccinated staff I’m calling shenigans!.
I did forward my statement to the Met Police ref Sam White and and his associates.Yes it is an National Emergency these modern day Einsatzgruppen units must be closed or burnt down!
The NHS must be really in danger of being overwhelmed if they’re firing staff for a moronic reason.
Wrong.
Those who have taken measures to discriminate against the unstabbed are “kneeling on the throats” of others and I seem to recall that that has become quite unpopular just recently.
I hope all those medical staff who have refused the jab stick to their guns and walk out rather than be coerced into taking a vaccine they don’t want that makes absolutely no difference at all to their personal safety and the safety of others – I really do.
This decision to sack unvaccinated medical staff was obviously a political one not scientific and there are times when people must make a stand against this kind of political authoritarianism … this is one of them.
I wouldn’t walk out, you need to get pushed out in order to get any compensation. This should not get through the courts and if it doesn’t you will be in line for a payout. Or perhaps there will be a very late backing down on this policy. Perhaps the policy is being used as a sledge hammer to keep battering away at the unvaxxed – so much for informed consent.
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