Health Services: Resignations

(asked on 8th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all Departmental documents, evidence and research in relation to NHS staff who have already left their positions as a result of the Government’s mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy, prior to recent changes to that policy.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 8th March 2022

NHS Digital publishes quarterly statistics on the reason National Health Service (NHS) trust staff left their roles, however, the reported reasons for leaving do not include a category related to COVID-19 vaccination. The most recently published data covers the second quarter of 2021/2022 and can be found at the following link:

https://files.digital.nhs.uk/27/2BF87D/NHS%20Workforce%20Statistics%2C%20September%202021%20Reasons%20for%20Leaving.xlsx.

The Department published an Impact Assessment (IA) relating to vaccination as a condition of deployment in health and wider social care settings. This estimated that 73,000 workers would remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 at the end of the 12-week grace period who are not otherwise medically exempt. The IA is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1039988/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-the-health-and-wider-social-care-sector-impact-assessment.pdf.

The latest NHS England data (published on 3 March) shows there are now more vaccinated NHS trust healthcare workers (1.48 million with at least one dose) than there were total NHS trust healthcare workers when the consultation on vaccination requirements in the health and wider social care sector was launched in early September 2021 (1.43 million).

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