More than 3,200 NHS healthcare workers took part in survey
More than 3,200 NHS healthcare workers took part in survey - Just one in six (18%) healthcare workers thought mandatory vaccinations were the best solution to encourage more frontline staff to have a Covid-19 jab, finds new research led by UCL and the University of Leicester. As part of the UK-REACH longitudinal study, researchers carried out a survey of over 3,200 NHS healthcare workers, to understand how they felt about mandatory vaccinations, and find out what solutions they may have to address the problem of under-vaccination among colleagues. The research was triggered by the UK Government's controversial decision (since dropped) to make it a legal requirement for all NHS workers, in face-to-face patient roles, to be double vaccinated by April 1st, 2022, or risk losing their job. Published in the Lancet's eClinicalMedicine , the findings show that more than three quarters (77%) of healthcare workers preferred another solution to mandatory vaccinations, and the remaining 5% said they didn't know what the best thing to do was. The most popular alternative to mandatory vaccinations was 'education and support', proposed by one in three (32%) healthcare workers. This group thought people should be helped to understand the benefits of vaccination and encouraged to take up the vaccine. Another one in six (18%) felt it was up to individuals to decide whether or not to get vaccinated.
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