The NHS vaccine mandate should be cancelled to prevent staff shortages, the Royal College of GPs has said, as thousands took to the streets across England to protest against the policy. The BBC has more.
NHS staff must have a first jab by February 3rd and be fully vaccinated by April 1st to continue in frontline roles.
The Department of Health said there were no plans to delay and it was “the right thing to do to protect patients”.
NHS workers who oppose the Government’s mandatory vaccination policy have staged a protest in central London.
Demonstrations were also held in other cities across England including Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. …
Martin Marshall, Chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said compulsory vaccination for health professionals in England was “not the right way forward”.
He said the vast majority of staff were vaccinated but some 70,000 to 80,000 were not and they accounted for 10% of staff at some hospital or GP surgeries.
Some 94.3% of NHS trust health care workers in England have had a first dose of vaccine and 91.5% have had a second dose, figures to December 31st show.
If unvaccinated staff were taken out of frontline roles by April 1st there would be “massive consequences” for the NHS, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
He said a delay would allow time for booster jabs and a “sensible conversation” about whether vaccines should be mandatory at all.
Danny Mortimer, deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said some frontline staff would have to leave their roles if they choose not to be vaccinated.
He said: “This will reduce frontline NHS staff numbers even further and lead to more gaps in capacity at a time of intense pressure and patient demand.”
In London, demonstrators marched from Regents Park to the BBC headquarters in Portland Place in a peaceful protest against mandating vaccines for health workers.
But Dr. Nikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said health care professionals had “a duty” to make sure they were protected.
She said: “If you’re marching today, just take a moment, think about the people that you’ve been looking after who have experienced Covid, think about your colleagues who you’ve been working with, and think about the best way to make sure that we’re all protected, and that we’re all as safe as possible, because we are very much in this together and it’s down to us to look after each other too.”
Meanwhile, Kate, a nurse in Hampshire, told the Today programme she was prepared to lose her job rather than have a coronavirus vaccine against her will.
“I don’t feel like the vaccination needs to be mandated because we are medical professionals and we have enough information to make that decision for ourselves,” she said.
“When I had Covid I was ill but not particularly unwell and when it comes to me being forced to do something or lose my job, I just can’t understand how they think that’s a sensible position. I’m good at my job, I care about people, and I certainly have never and would never put people at risk.”
Pressure growing on the Government to U-turn on this, which can’t come too soon. With the evidence that Omicron both evades the vaccines and is mild, what justification there might have been has now clearly evaporated. Perhaps the Government is leaving the U-turn to the last moment in order to maximise the pressure on unvaccinated staff to accept the jab. Which is of course cruel, but then so is the policy so we can hardly expect them to care about that.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: talkRADIO has tweeted about the protests taking place today in London and across the country: “Thousands of people have gathered in central London to protest against the mandatory vaccine mandate that could see more than 70,000 NHS workers lose their jobs.“
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and all for a jab that is still on an emergency use licence(?)!! IFR is still approximately 0.02% and average age of mortality 82years (older than average life expectancy 81.4 years). Somewhat OTT.
Ah well the moment of truth is here for the NHS. They have spent 2 years coercing older people and the general population to have it whilst telling absolute lies about it including they were safe and had completed all the clinical trials. Now it’s their turn and GPs Nurses Surgeons etc know the huge risks involved and what is in it they are raising hell. Well they really should take a bit of their own medicine. Consultants Nurses and other medical professions have been in the media bleating on about the unvaccinated whilst all the time reporting the hospitals are so short of staff going off sick due to vivid (good scam that as the NHS has an already very high sick record). They should have been vaccinated first in my view. Shame on them for bullying and coercing the elderly and the public into taking them now it’s their turn they don’t want it. They now need to let the public know the truth about them and just why they are refusing it.
Logic would suggest that all the non vaxed workers, who have been on the frontline since the start of the pandemic would already have passed on the disease to numerous other people if they were going to so there’s no point in locking the stable door after the horse has well and truly bolted.
As there’s no evidence that this is the case there’s no need to vax those that chose not to have the procedure.
Why didn’t the Royal College of GPs call for the suspension of the mass rollout of a coerced, untested cytotoxin instead of profiting massively from the insidious plan to Vax the global populace with fuck knows what!
Excellent point. Now it’s their turn they don’t want it because they know it’s poison. The Govt should stand firm with the NHS on this or they remove the mandatory requirement for domiciallary carers at once. The Royal College of Nursing needs to tell the truth about the vaccine so does The BMA. Losing staff applied in the case of social care so why is the NHS wanting to be exempt from the jab that they have forced the British public to take? They didn’t stand up for the carers did they?
How on earth did it come to this – that people can be blackmailed into accepting an unlicensed and untested drug? AND that so many people think it’s an acceptable state of affairs.
It seems it still the same old “Dont kill granny” narrative that we now know makes no practical sense .We are and were never responsible for saving lives in the midst of a mild respiratory condition.That was an horrific piece of psychology dreamt up by the “NUDGE” unit.but very hard to deconstruct.
However the NHS show no signs of being outraged by the sacking decision they have in fact actively encouraged it ,what a great employer !
Interesting choice, to March on the BBC…
The manta has been that compulsory vaccination protects. But who is it protecting from what? We have had two years of staff treating covid patients without compulsory vaccination. If they got it, then they isolated. Does vaccination prevent infection? Probably not. So you can be vaccinated but still pass it on.
The only justification is for at risk staff groups for their own safety and if they want to take a risk that’s up to them. But as it isn’t going to stop nosocomial transmission it is pointless.
I support every nhs worker in the country who chooses to decline an experimental biological,with minimal safety and efficacy data and NO long term safety or efficacy data.
An insulting b*tch, isn’t she, that Nikki Kanani? “Just take a moment…and think”, indeed!
New studies of effectiveness of Ivermectin emerging every day. Peer-reviewed, large PSM study from Brazil finds, regular use of ivermectin as a prophylactic agent was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates. The study was published in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. This medicine is proven over and over again to be effective for covid and flu like symptoms. You can get your ivermectin by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
The NHS vax mandate should be stopped because it is WRONG.
Wrong for anyone to be forced against their will.
I thought coercive control was illegal anyway?
It is illegal….under the Nuremberg Code …but where are our Judges and the Courts…they have been hiding under the Bench for the last two years while Johnson runs amok.
It is now quite clear we have no Separation of Powers – no independent Judiciary and in effect, no Constitution protecting our Rights, worthy of the Title.
Happy Days for Johnson’s Cabal!
Boris Johnson the great libertarian in full flow …https://twitter.com/jamesmelville/status/1378596850698162176?lang=en
Ironic (not) that these protests get publicity when “sceptics” didn’t.
I joined a march today (first time) in Hull and the people I spoke with were well informed, distrustful of MSM and concerned only with choice, fairness, compassion and freedom.
If this all fails we are sunk.
Big march in Perth yesterday. Given the size of previous crowds, and despite the near 100R heat, my estimate is around 55-60,000.
This banner was hanging on the fence when we arrived at the Supreme Court Gardens. No, I haven’t fact checked it. I’ll leave that to the roaming fact checkers of the internet.
This manifest evil must be stopped!
Can we stop with the double standard of driving traffic to the BBC website, which is commercial, and also on this site condemning them?
Please find neutral news sources, I realise it makes the site slightly echo chamber-like but you need to make exceptions for certain sites like BBC, CNN etc.
‘There are even far-right conspiracy theorists so delusional, they actually believe there is no virus causing the pandemic.’
Why don’t you ever hear MSM mouthpieces saying this?
Why do they avoid this topic like the plague?
Proving us wrong would surely be a boon for the pro-jab army…
77th not up to the task?
They are embarrassed at being wrong. It’s uncomfortable and a dawning realisation. Suddenly The Science is total bollocks.
Isn’t it very interesting that it is the medical profession that has organised and is standing up to jab mandates? And that one of the professional associations is speaking out?
The contrast with the silence of tennis players and the tennis association, refusing to stand up for Djokovic couldn’t be bigger.
But then again, the doctors really know that the jabs aren’t that great and possibly cause more harm than good. As opposed to the ignorant tennis players who believe and obey like lemmings.
This society only listens to NHS people, not the likes of us.
As an NHS employee told me today on the Manchester March – it tells everything when senior consultants are deciding to retire early.
So even if the NHS battle battle is won the likelihood is that large numbers of genuinely good people will have gone before they intended to. No getting them back.
What a F U.
Don’t rule out the effect of the truly stupid excess annual allowance – Treasury inspired; Many highly paid NHS workers have been persuaded they have to retire early to avoid an annual additional tax charge ( not actually true but try telling certain medics they are wrong )
NHS pension scheme allows for “retire and return” – certain that this has been used by many many NHS employees, of all grades, who were born circa 1965>. So an experienced NHS staff member, decades of service, retires, returns on significantly reduced hours – not surprising a deficit in skill and capability emerges which it will take many years to reverse, if at all; then a mass testing, lockdown exacerbated ICU crisis hits made even worse when early treatment drugs are denied to sick patients…..double whammy…Whitehall and NHS Trust combined management cock up worthy of Yes Prime Minister.
NHS trust runs on the available number of “hours” for each post; hours not “filled” can be lost for good putting even more pressure on those who remain – GP’s have taken early retirement in droves (same thing was witnessed in Dentistry in the late 1980’s when swathes were offered a massively attractive deal… Read more »
Lost hours are usually filled by expensive agency staff I seem to recall. Next we’ll be hearing that BJ and Carrie have a financial interest in a temp agency.
The tide IS turning and we ARE winning.
I jolly well hope so, things are getting very serious now. A catastrophe awaits if they don’t back down, and if Labour go along with this, they must never be allowed to forget it.
Labour is political trash of the vilest kind!
I think so. At the rally in London, the police were more relaxed than at previous demonstrations and some were seen chatting to nurses. They know that so many decent, honest people can’t be wrong.
I had a chat with one of the coppers outside Downing St. It was quite apparent that he was on the right side: our side.
Some small comfort, then, that they’re not hurling them to the ground and tossing them into Black Marias. Then again, the people they now treat so nicely aren’t elderly people protesting against lockdowns. Whatever, some unity amongst public sector employees against this tyranny can’t be bad and is long overdue. Absent, as usual, is the Cadet Division of the Tory Party, aka “Labour”.
But filthy lying politicians and their media stooges can be wrong -with evil intent!
Same in Manchester this afternoon.
We even had a police escort for our “storming” of the Arndale. 😀😀😀
I would say that we are finally putting up a fight.
But if you think the Davos set are going to back down that easily and give up their dreams of totalitarian population control via digital ID’s and mandated pharmaceutical treatments, you’re in for a nasty surprise.
They are already fighting back and they will step it up.
Bear in mind, we are simply back where we were at the beginning of December. Tests, mandated isolation, travel passes, institutionalised discrimination against the unjabbed, they’re all still in place.
And while in the UK they may have momentarily softened the position, in the heart of Europe, they are hardening it with every passing day.
I would say that at best we’re at the equivalent of Dunkirk. We haven’t been completely annihilated.
Agree. Good summary.
Well, I would say that Monty has just dug his heels in at El Alamein; the war might still be lost, but there is a real will to win now. If only we had someone with balls to lead the charge…
Agree first part, not certain “winning” is the right term when you consider the financial, mental health, educational, long term physiological, socially destructive effects; Care home deaths, all aspects of Partygate, and immediate post jab deaths…Allies “won” WWII – UK still “paying” for the collateral damage.
How we need “Truth and Reconciliation”…
Good debate between Bret Weinstein and Chris Martenson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_KpBzFrcY&ab_channel=PeakProsperity
Omicron is no worse than the common cold.
The UK government has spent billions on so-called “vaccines” (for a virus akin to the common cold) and need to use them up or be accused of wasting tax payers money.
Health workers have seen the devastation of “vaccine injuries” on the wards and don’t want to have them themselves.
This is pure political theatre and the government will back down at the last minute (thanks to Tory backbenchers) and donate the jabs to third world countries who can’t afford them and would be better off not having them.
Surely better to incinerate it as clinical waste?
Toxic waste
If 2 years ago we had been faced with the virus that is circulating today it would have been just another winter. Perhaps not even. It might have gone down as a good winter flu season.
Thinking about it in this way just makes one want to weep at the complete and utter lunacy of the situation we are in.
It’s not about what they say it’s about.
Omicron takes many forms and every patient is different. I’m recovering from it now. It was much more like a flu than a cold in my experience, and caused many weird symptoms and sensations, like roaming shooting pains and internal tremor.
Hundreds of thousands of viruses swirl around the planet daily, and there are tens of thousands of strains of coronavirus, so what makes you think you had ‘omicrom’?
If the gov back down, are we winning?
If the gov don’t back down, what’s next?
It seems they have to purge the unjabbed NHS staff in order to assert total state control over medical ethics. Delaying this may only be tactical. Going ahead may signal the permanent dictation of medical practices by pharmaceutical companies and the globalists pulling the puppet strings. This would lead to another round of passports, jabs, discrimination against the unjabbed, and pave the way for camps and worse.
Destroying the unjabbed NHS staff would absolutise their claim that the unjabbed in general are scum which needs to be wiped out. Many of the public would assume this is true.
If they do go ahead, however, 70,000 people would catalyse millions into sympathy with us.
This is the major turning point so far.
I’m not so optimistic.
At best it will be a tactical retreat.
Don’t forget that the Johnson, Marcon etc.. are little more than the regional managers of the global oligarchs.
They don’t really decide the big things. Only how to implement them.
This is a critical battle – if they drive this through the gloves shpuld be off with rthis Evil Johnson Regime, which should be forced from office i its entirety!.
I am at a loss as to why the emergency use authorisation for these so called vaccines has not been withdrawn by now and recalled.
There is no longer an emergency.
They don’t stop transmission or infection and there is now very scant data to show they did anything positive at all apart from making a few people very rich.
The number of deaths (now in the region of 1900 in less than a year just in England and Wales) reported as adverse reactions and the ages of those affected (which the MHRA are still not releasing)
The MHRA have not said when the deaths occurred with respect to date of injection which is vital information.
The huge number of adverse reactions and the now apparent signs of negative impact on the immune system should have meant that the use of these injections was halted months ago.
Stopping their use would put an end to the mandate debate immediately.
Continuing to supply will lead to more deaths particularly in younger people who they are insanely still targetting to get the booster.
The failure to act quickly on this, to lesson any further long term… Read more »
Maybe there was never a true emergency. I think it would have been easier to stick to the July 2021 Freedom Day and use the same propaganda levers to cease and desist, then muddy the waters, and claim victory over ‘covid’.
The current situation, on gov terms, makes no sense on any level of rational analysis.
Yes , sticking to so called freedom day was still a possible face saving way out for this government,the fact that they didn’t take it probably rules out cock up theory. It does now increasingly seem to have been all about the “vaccines” and their part in the construction of a new normal global biosecurity state.
There has NOT been an emergency of ANY sort these last two years.
Evil intent of the Globalist agenda
I’m glad that the Unions are sort of conceding on this issue, but the logic is still flawed. There should be no law compelling NHS workers to get the jibbyjabs because it’s completely unethical!!!
F all to do with the fact that the NHS will be in even deeper shit if they have additional staff shortages, and certainly not because we “owe” these workers anything for continuing to do their jobs during a “pandemic”.
There is an International Law that forbids the current wave of bullying and coercion to take an experimental untrialed mRNA Gene Therapy injection, which has so far killed at least 2,000 people in the UK alone, including children.
Those attempting it should end up in Court./
We are calling their bluff lets see what turns up
Jeez… what’s wrong with these namby-pamby NHS arbeitskräften jab refuseniks!?!
These life saving experimental wonder drugs are safe and effective FFS, Whitty and Vallance said so and had graphs to prove it… just as Fauci told them… meanwhile clip below…nothing to see here… now shuffle along to those sanitizing showers…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/URZ7Koc4bnuB/
As many as 5000 demonstrating in Glasgow today. Hard to tell exactly but Buchanan St chock-a-block from top to bottom with an unseen tail round the corner into Argyle St. Police took us up Sauchiehall St and corralled us at Rose St. Quick about turn and are corralled again at entrance to Buchanan Galleries Mall. They forgot to guard the doors so the moving mass instinctively flooded into the mall which acted as an acoustic enhancer to our many chants especially, ‘Stick your vaccine passports up your a$%e!’ Strangely uplifting!
We did the same in the Arndale in Manchester. “Strangely uplifting.”
Indeed.
Dr. Nikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said health care professionals had “a duty” to make sure they were protected.
As a patient! I have a say Nikki, ‘first do no harm’ what you are talking about is challenged by overwhelming medical evidence that your idea of protection is political not medical science.