NHS: Coronavirus
(asked on 8th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government why COVID-19 vaccinations are compulsory for care home staff, and voluntary for NHS staff.
This question was answered on 15th November 2021
On 9 November the Secretary of State announced his intention to legislate to make COVID-19 vaccination a condition of deployment in health and the wider social care sector. This will extend the requirement to be vaccinated to all those that are deployed to undertake a Care Quality Commission-regulated activity across health and social care. Subject to Parliamentary approval, we intend the enforcement of this condition to start on 1 April.