NHS staff in England to be offered Covid vaccine in next few weeksAll NHS health and social care staff will be offered a Covid vaccine as an “immediate” and “critical” priority amid growing anxiety from frontline workers and concerns over absence rates. In an announcement today, NHS England said hospitals would play the lead role in vaccinating millions of staff and that most should have been inoculated by early February. Responding to NHS staff being made a top priority for jabs, Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, the president of the Doctors’ Association UK, said: “For frontline staff who are risking their lives every day to keep patients safe, this announcement couldn’t have come soon enough. “Tragically we have lost too many health workers to Covid in the UK. Frontline NHS and care workers absolutely must be protected as a matter of priority and we are pleased to see this announcement.”

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2021 18:27 UTC