Vaccine Mandate For NHS Workers and Care Home Workers Scrapped
Mandatory vaccination for health and social care workers will be scrapped in a fortnight following a Government U-turn. The Mail has the story.
Ministers were accused of undermining public confidence after Health Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs in January that the “no jab, no job” policy was “no longer proportionate”.
Now it has been confirmed that compulsory jabs will no longer be a condition of employment from March 15th.
It comes after an estimated 40,000 workers were fired when legislation over being fully vaccinated came into effect in November.
Mr Javid said that it had been the “right policy when the original decision was taken”.
But he added that things had changed following “clinical evidence regarding the current Omicron variant of COVID-19, which is intrinsically less severe than Delta, and the high rate of vaccination across the population”.
Pat Cullen, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said the change was the “right decision” but said it had come “too late for those who have already lost their jobs”.
She added: “Ministers must now urgently address the health and social care workforce crisis which is undermining nursing staff’s ability to care safely for their patients. There are tens of thousands of nursing vacancies across those services.”
Previously the NHS vaccine mandate had been paused ahead of an anticipated large number of staff losses at a time of crisis. The policy was put out to consultation, and the Government decision has now been announced, with the care home worker mandate, which had come into effect in the autumn at the cost of an estimated 40,000 workers, also being scrapped. This will allow any sacked workers who want their old jobs back to offer their services again.
Good news – but it’s a tragedy that hard working staff were put through this at all. And a further tragedy that care home residents have had to suffer the consequences of under-staffing, which alongside the rigours of Covid protocols will have taken its toll.
Vigilance will be required to ensure mandates don’t creep in via professional bodies or other means.
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I hope every one of those 40,000 who were sacked is having legal advice on how to sue the bar stewards!
Unfortunately they cannot. Sacking them was entirely legal, and indeed an obligation, for employers, though morally reprehensible.
Then good luck recruiting 40,000 to fill all of those positions. And the nursing profession was chronically understaffed anyway. When I worked in a hospital we were always having to fill shifts using expensive agency nurses. And what sane person would have any confidence in the NHS as an employer now? I’d love to see how the recruitment onto nurse training courses and the overall attrition rate is going forward. I wouldn’t touch the NHS with a barge pole now if I still lived in the UK. That is NOT how you treat highly qualified, experienced and loyal staff who’ve given years of service to this once lauded institution.
A friend of mine who used to train nurses told me recently that she has had a few of her ex-students ringing her up asking for references as they are leaving the NHS and looking for other jobs.
836,000 Ukrainians can easily fill 40,000 jobs left open. Not to mention those arriving by dinghy across the Channel from France.
So they are English speaking qualified nurses are they?
No it was not legal. You cannot in any circumstance legally force people to take an experimental jab.
Especially given that the NHS were immune from liability should there be any adverse effects. The work force were just used right from March 2020. Applauded one year then dumped like disposable garbage the next…*despite having acquired natural immunity during 2020*! You just cannot make up the ludicrous decision making that’s responsible for this completely nonsensical and non-evidence based mistreatment of people!
The Nuremberg code made it illegal as did the human rights act as did the common law of assault as did the health act (one dealing with vaccines). The hurdle the government would need to jump over given how many different ways it was illegal, even in this time of cowardly judges and snivelling politicians, is too high to allow a court to find for the government.
As did the Public Health act 1984 s.45E
The ‘Common Law Constables’ of the ‘Guardians300’ will be right onto this, then!
I’d have said the Alpha Men Assemble would back them up… but it looks like they’ve all run away.
That may be true but there are signs the judiciary is captured.
Does captured mean the same as bought and paid for.
If sufficient tumbrels are ready to roll, they might just rediscover how to interpret law.
The last time I spoke to a judge he was as bent as a two bob note when it came to our constitution. They are, like every other important institution that controls this country, rotten to the core.
It was legal because the oppressors make the law. The law didn’t force people to take a jab: it just destroyed their livelihood if they didn’t. It was thoroughly wicked, cruel and evil, but it was legal.
Yes, and hopefully people will not forget just how cruel and evil their oppressors were. Do not ever forget.
No, it was illegal coercion
That’s why they engineered an “emergency” with draconian/ evil measures.
I think there’d have been an “emergency” every single flu season prior to 2020 had they started mass-testing with a PCR for whatever respiratory virus was circulating. It’s the testing ( and the idiot hypochondriacs that rock up for a test because they’re scared of a runny nose ) that is at the heart of this shitshow. As long as sufficient automatons comply with their instructions then there’ll be another “emergency” coming our way next winter. TPTB will milk the stupidity of the public for all that it’s worth. And we certainly seem to be having a pandemic of stupidity!
I would have thought that a contract cannot be changed without consent either.
But was it? under what law? and if there was a law, how was it not overridden by the 1999 HRA? I would have thought that if tested in court, that would supersede it.
Depends if the judges are in the tyrants’ pocket.
Everything is legal when the people committing the atrocity are the ones who write the laws and give themselves permission. Hanging homosexuals, burning heretics – all legal.
And how many of the ones that complied got jabbed under duress? How must they be feeling now? It’s all just so disgustingly unethical and now, as is an indisputable fact, completely pointless anyway. These people were threatened with job loss if they didn’t consent to become lab rats and receive a medical intervention they did not need! Words fail me. 🙁
If more of them had been hesitant earlier in the roll out,with a view to where this was going, the no jab, no job policy would have been scuppered without leaving port.
That’s coersion then.
The “the “no jab, no job” policy was never proportionate: 2020 had a LOWER age adjusted death rate than every year before 2008. No one was screaming for the end of civil rights or forced medication with an experimental treatment in clear contravention of the Nuremberg code in any of the years before 2008 with higher age-adjusted death rates.
If there really was a health crisis, you don’t sack thousands of NHS staff in response to it.
These are totalitarian turds at work, domestic abusers masquerading as scientists.
The public comply, and the scammers are getting away with it. When are the 5-11 year olds going to get jabbed for the first time with the ‘Covid vaccines’? Will that go ahead, or be stopped? The 12-18 year olds are due for their second dose…. how many had a first dose? We don’t know.
Last I read is that the NHS staff who didn’t want the ‘vaccines’ got a 6-month extension, so they can carry on working up until October 1st?
What does Sajid Javid care whether they lose their jobs? He goes private. He’s a millionaire with bodyguards.
You overlook we have true genius in our Governments, just as current sanctions driving up gas and oil prices are giving Russia a huge increase in revenue to fund the war the sanctions are supposed to stop.
Only very clever people can do that sort of strategic thinking, like taking away Canadian truck drivers licences and confiscating their trucks in the midst of a supply chain problem.
WEF puppets and Big Pharma buddies on the make.
Mindless conspiracy theories, entirely devoid of evidence, are not superior to facts
I hope Saj Jab and all those culpable are not excused or allowed to brush under the carpet this atrocity of coercion.
I hope they go to jail.
Absolutely, paid for by seizing all the money they earned during the debacle and any money made from lucrative contracts.
Well that hasn’t happened so far, and looks unlikely to happen. Who is going to make that sort of thing happen?
With Tony Blair and Anthony Fauci and Putin….. ZZZzzz…….
And hope they never drop the soap in the shower.
Hopefully all those who the Govt trampled on are now in alternative employment. I certainly wouldn’t consider going back if it had happened to me.
It’s time to convert the Tower back to its original purpose.
As an allusion, America (Colorado) has a mountain called “Pikes Peak”.
And the birds would be well-fed.
Could a REAL Tory please step forward.
The Tory Party is funded by Russia. Nothing quite like supporting Putin!
It just doesn’t exist
What a ****
Mr Javid said that it had been the “right policy when the original decision was taken”.
But he added that things had changed following “clinical evidence regarding the current Omicron variant of COVID-19, which is intrinsically less severe than Delta, and the high rate of vaccination across the population”.
Cause we all know the jab stops transmission… right?
Indeed – no mention of the fact that Omicron cuts through vaccines like butter. One must never question the effectiveness or the safety of vaccines – any vaccines.
Did he say that after he contracted Covid, despite being triple jabbed? lol What an absolute tosser! All those staff were jabbed with a useless pseudo-vaccine that Omicron has pissed all over and nothing was accomplished from this bullying tactic. These people have literally no benefits gained, only the risks, and the long-term we know nothing of yet. There must be more than a few NHS staff feeling a tad duped and pissed off now. They should have some legal recourse due to what they were forced to do.
Jabit is a duckin Liar. It was never the right decision.
Javid and Johnson should seek help for a god complex.
It may have been scrapped as a blanket policy but watch out for its adoption by the individual Health Trusts as a condition of employment.
And watch those trusts struggle to recruit. Just as Jet2 and now Ryanair have dropped their in-flight mask mandates; how long before money talks useless rules walk?
Mr Javid said that it had been the “right policy when the original decision was taken”.
Utter rubbish.
What he is saying is that it was the right policy when 40,000 care workers were fired last November. It was morally right to sack 40,000 workers who were no more likely to be infectious than the vaccinated; and morally defensible to cause a crisis in the care sector. Because, of course, that protected and saved a lot of lives of the vulnerable, didn’t it Javid?
These politicians have no shame. Still lying. Can’t admit they were wrong and did great harm. So must cling to a lying narrative for political purposes.
The lies will get bigger and spread into Finance.
Will the statutory mandate simply be turned into a contractual condition though?
This occupying regime is objectively guilty of crimes against its citizens. The maltreatment of its own people through fear/propaganda; forced isolation/separation; medical/non-medical neglect; the abuse of children through ‘masking’, separation from family and peers and experimental inoculations; mandating this experimental inoculation on pain of sacking; the unceremonious sacking of tens of thousands of workers, workers whose services were apparently ‘vital’ ‘at the height of the pandemic,’ whose services were deemed so invaluable, so indispensable that clapping rituals were performed in their honour on the weekly in spite of there not being an experimental substance in sight, whose careers have now gone down the swanny; a funeral embargo above a certain/arbitrary number… All for a virus with a negligible IFR.
This regime is objectively criminal, and has forfeited legitimacy.
Compensation now for those forced to leave their jobs.
Prosecutions now for those who discriminated.
Admission of error and apology now by the government and its cronies and collaborators.
Not gonna happen. Next!
Tricky. Should I bookmark this in “Covid & the UK” or in “Bedwetters in retreat”?
The latter, I think, in honour of Malteserman’s lame “right policy when the original decision was taken”.
A stupid decision in the first place.
It was never proportionate and a variety of people need to lose their careers over this. Not their jobs, their careers.
I’d be rather annoyed now, if I got jabbed to keep my job
Jesus wept, our incompetent government is beyond belief – or ultimately not really working for us, which I deeply suspect. The general lock-step that nations showed over Covid-19 measures showed that.
You don’t have to be a genius to realise there is a widespread distrust in the “vaccine” and consequently anticipate that the NHS vaccine mandate would result in a large number of staff losses.
God give us strength.
Not incompetent at all – if you were to look at their bank statements you’d see they are, in fact, highly competent at ripping the public off.
They are making money out of this at this very moment, and having a laugh as the zombies stagger round in their face masks spraying the handles of their shopping trolleys with ‘sanitiser’.
Distrust in the vaccine or not, the jabbing programme continues with doses 4 and 5 arriving this year for adults.
Spain has altered their entry requirements to include anyone who has recovered from covid in the last 6 months.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirements#if-youve-had-covid-19-in-the-past-year
now how do I prove I’ve had and recovered from covid?
You needed to have had an NHS PCR positive.
despite my other half insisting on frequent lat flo and pcr’s when someone at school has a cough we’ve not found cv yet. went to Jamaica for Xmas. Pre flight tests, no social distancing at the uk airport checkin, where all ba flights share the same queue, or flight (it was packed both ways) plus the usual nonsense in Montego Bay where ~ 5 flights from Europe & US arrive at the same time and every one is funnelled into the passport hall again with no social distancing. Then lat flo before departing for the uk, again no distancing in Montego Bay or flight or Heathrow with even more concurrent flights from vm all over the globe then pcr test again and 12 hours after the all clear abs before the 2 day deadline we get notified that we need to isolate for 7 days but the actual rule in hmgov site said we didn’t (f confusing). I don’t go out much but we’ve not had obvious covid and non of the tests we’ve done have shown covid. I did an antibody test that showed 1350 au/ml. The au means arbitrary unit!! They don’t tell you what it actually means… Read more »
How much they relax depends on how busy they are. Money talks…
I hear Jaywick Sands is nice in Summer.
You need a certificate from your health authority to show you were tested for Covid and had a ‘positive’ result.
But, never mind – the “wheels of the Covid bus are falling off” and the “house of cards is collapsing” – soon Spain will see that all these restrictions are unnecessary… eh?
Nope – it’s the Vaxx Pass, or you’ll have to pay for PCR tests.
Or you can “choose” not to comply and not leave to UK – it’s “your free choice”!
Hmm maybe as a separate group but aren’t we signing up to forced vaccination when the WHO declares a pandemic. Cue next fake pandemic!
So……the BRITISH GOVERNMENT will not mandate jabs…….
…….BUT, ‘with a heavy heart’……
……they will have to observe a WHO global treaty commitment which DOES.
I don’t think they realise the extent to which the WHO has become a joke, or the enormous increase in the numbers of those who seriously question vaccines.
That’s the problem with over-reach: you increase and strengthen the opposition.
Yes. I have posted the same.
Mandatory medical procedures of ANY kind were already illegal. Public Health Act 1984, primary legislation.
So why are all these nurses worried about losing their jobs? And of all the care workers who were ‘sacked’ – that just didn’t happen?
90% of those who completed the online survey opposed the vaccine mandates. Well done to all those who took the trouble to respond to the consultation. It just goes to show what can be achieved if enough of us are motivated to act.
Worth reading in full !
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care/outcome/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care-consultation-response
Sajid Javid, the monster who proposed this, should NEVER be forgiven. He is utter scum for threatening decent, hard working people with the loss of their livelihoods in this way. He would have known the data on infection and transmission at the time. It
was never the right policy. It was pointless coercion and an abomination. WHERE is the apology, let alone the resignation?
There’ll never be a resignation, because he’ll never seen any reason for even an apology.
I know lots of engineers who’ve shed their family’s South Asian ‘tribalist’ backgrounds, but I also know a few who haven’t. I don’t know Javid from Adam’s Navel, but I’ll wager that he’s in that ballpark.
Just because you are born in a stable does not make you a horse!
I see the child came through again, about an hour ago, down-dinging everything.
That’s what the Web has attracted over the past 20 years. It’s a valuable tool for the dissemination of information, for communication. However, it’s also a place where The Eternal Child can stomp its little footsie and throw tantrums.
(Or also, where the Child can pontificate like it’s an Adult.)
Haha indeed. There’s a resident wanker/troll/stalker who always dislikes my posts wherever I go on this site. In the other comments section you get dislikes for merely saying “good morning”! I find it hilarious that such a spineless little turd thinks anybody gives a shit about his pathetic behaviour. “Trolls gonna troll” Part of the fixtures and fittings so just ignore. 🙂
“Marching on Moscow was the right policy when the original decision was taken” said Emperor Napoleon to our roving reporter. But he added that things had changed following evidence of inclement weather.
Marshal Ney,1st Duke of Elchingen, said the change was the “right decision” but said it had come “too late for those who have already lost their lives”.
Too late we’re coming after ya
just checking as the site has frozen
This is the result of health policies driven by corruption, ignorance, vested interests and downright incompetence and stupidity.
Add to those the supine media, now wholly-bribed government subsidiaries and rigged, distorted opinion polls, and the result is the rubbish we see and endure.
The only reason these vaccine mandates have been so-called scrapped is because the mandates are coming in via the back door and through the WHO.
When Bozo signs away our sovereignty the WHO will pass a piece of guidance mandating the “vaccines” so implementation will be “not me guv” – Bozo. Those of us who say no will be Locked Out, just as has occurred in Europe.
Well spotted HP.