Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of NHS staff that would leave the service as a result of vaccine mandates.

An impact statement setting out an estimate of the potential range of impacts on health and care workforce levels in England was published alongside the Government’s response to the consultation on vaccination as a condition of deployment. The impact assessment is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1032255/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-the-health-and-wider-social-care-sector-impact_statement.pdf

This estimates that 73,000 National Health Service workers would remain unvaccinated at the start of enforcement despite not being medically exempt. These workers would therefore no longer be deployable into an in-scope role.