No10’s rumoured U-turn on mandatory Covid vaccination for NHS workers has been ‘long overdue’, a medical union said today — but care home bosses are in uproar after losing nearly 40,000 staff to the policy last year.
A two-jab vaccine mandate was supposed to come into force in the health service on April 1, which would have given the remaining 80,000 unvaccinated frontline NHS staff until Thursday to get their first dose.
But Health Secretary Sajid Javid is said to