COVID-19: Around 10,000 food supply chain workers will become exempt from self-isolation rules as daily testing is phased in It comes as Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng admitted the government is "very concerned" as more than 600,000 individual...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US has backed booster doses of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty in line with its recent FDA approval, overruling the advice of its own expert advisors. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP)...
director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, said: "Delaying making COVID-19 vaccination a condition of deployment for all healthcare workers until the spring is to be welcomed. It is important that the Government doesn’t rush into this as the policy could have serious implications for staff...
A member of staff of the nearby St Thomas' Hospital rests on the National Covid Memorial Wall in London, Tuesday Nov. 9, 2021. The British government is due to decide about mandatory vaccination for NHS staff.Credit: AP Photo/Frank Augstein The government already requires nursing home staff ...
The Government also said that the free parking concession for NHS staff introduced during the pandemic would end on April 1, which the public service union, UNISON, said would add hundreds of pounds to cost pressures already facing health workers. Free Test Eligibility The UK Health Security Agen...
LONDON (AP) — Britain will require COVID-19 vaccinations for nursing home workers in England, arguing that the need to protect vulnerable residents outweighed employees' right to choose whether to get the jab. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the new rules Wednesday together with plan...
Britain will require COVID-19 vaccinations for nursing home workers in England, arguing that the need to protect vulnerable residents outweighed employees' right to choose whether to get the jab. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the new rules Wednesday together with plans for a public consulta...
And those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should, of course, continue to follow the rules where they live. Mr. Speaker, faced with these pressures on our NHS, I know some Members may ask the opposite que...
Healthcare unions are urging the government to carry out an updated impact assessment on how its policy of mandatory covid-19 vaccination for healthcare workers in England will affect staffing numbers. They warned that the new rules, which require all patient facing staff to be fully vaccinated ...
UK health chiefs have urged caution over any relaxation of lockdown rules amid signs that the impact of vaccination and social distancing regulations are beginning to work.