NHS workers should be legally forced to get their Covid-19 vaccines before the winter according to disgraced former Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
Hancock warned ministers against delaying mandatory jabs for nurses and doctors which Ministers are said to be making compulsory from April 2022.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Hancock, who was in post when compulsory jabs for care home workers were announced, said: ‘Having looked at all the evidence, I am convinced we must require vaccination for everyone who works not just in social care but the NHS – and get it in place as fast as possible.’
However, the government has been warned by NHS industry bodies and Labour frontbenchers that enforcing the requirement too soon could risk an exodus of health staff ahead of the winter.
Hancock wrote: ‘To me, the logic is crystal clear. Medicine is founded on science – and the science on the Covid vaccine is comprehensively proven.
‘There are some people who say this isn’t the way we do things in Britain. But we already mandate vaccination against Hepatitis B for doctors. The British historic precedents for compulsory vaccination go back to the 1850s.’
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