> Almost 90 per cent of employees at one health trust rejected the offer of a flu vaccination last winter, putting patients at greater risk of infection
putlersux on
Why are black and minority ethnic staff and communities hesitant towards vaccines?
Talysn on
sorry, it should be a basic requirement of the job.
(and if its not and there are spare jobs going, send me one please)
2shayyy on
Why though?
More than a little concerning that so many people that work in healthcare have rejected a free medicine that we are all encouraged to take.
Can anyone explain exactly why this the case – without bias or assumption?
gibon007 on
So they can look for employment elsewhere, how is that an issue?
InvertedDinoSpore on
Had awful reaction to covid vaccine Inc temporary paralysis and tbh at my age there’s no point in taking it so world also reject
Cornwallian68 on
Should have nipped this in the bud around Covid time. But no, we gave into nutters and their crackpot theories on vaccinations.
eairy on
There’s fairly simple solution: they have to have it or they lose their job. We wouldn’t accept staff refusing to wash their hands, this is no different.
limboxd on
There is a reason they stopped making covid vaccines mandatory for healthworkers. They would have noone in the hospital, so many of my colleagues are passively anti-vax (they’ll get/give their kids them but flu/covid, not happening) it’s mad.
Double_Ask9595 on
It doesn’t prevent transmission just lessens symptoms, if someone is at risk they should be the one to get the vaccine we’ve been over this a million times.
limeflavoured on
People like Andrew fucking Wakefield, among others, should be in prison.
DarkRain- on
If the staff don’t want it, no wonder regular people don’t want them. You can’t shame them into getting the vaccines. I say this as someone who is very vaccinated.
bobblebob100 on
Dont want the jab (as in anti vaxxers), or just dont get around to having it? 2 different things
Our department encourage staff to get it and give you paid time off during work to go for the jab
Alacrityneeded on
If you work in the medical system this should be mandatory. No vaccine no job.
This isn’t nutjob America.
Ethimir on
Considering that covid vaccines were in “beta” (if not alpha) can you blame them?
nosdivanion on
Is it strange that the lowest percentage of vaccinated staff are in the areas of the UK with the highest number of foreign employees?
lookofdisdain on
Dependence on workers with low iq, Stone Age ideologies or just plain gullible
Kushbeast666 on
Literally took the covid vaccine because my fiancee is a nurse. I didn’t really have an option even though I absolutely didn’t want to take it
k3nn3h on
>Other problems include hesitancy by black and minority ethnic staff and communities towards vaccines.
Reminder that the NHS relies on us importing limitless numbers of these groups, who disagree with the basic concept of medicine.
Heliocopris on
Are they taking into account all the people declining because they already had the jab elsewhere. I get mine done at my GPs so I decline the offer at my trust.
Cross_examination on
It’s the equivalent of wanting to work in a mosque and be a devoted Christian. If you work for the NHS, you need to be having all the vaccines. I’d go as far as to say that if you are smoking you are fired as well.
I cannot have a morbidly obese nurse telling me that I cannot get my eye surgery because I’m 5kg overweight, while I can see them smoking under the “no smoking” sign.
quetzalcoatlsQuills on
“If i die, I won’t have to work anymore”
– A friend who works in the NHS, 2025.
You mean to tell me our overworked, underpaid and famously mistreated NHS staff are anything from apathetic to flippant about vaccinations? Who could possibly have seen this coming? /s
horagino on
Good. Not surprised when the paramedics and nurses I’ve spoken to during the “pandemic” were well aware of the amount of bullshit going on.
Of course according to Reddit experts everyone was recommending it back then and now those same people who learned their lessons are now uneducated low iq apes 🤣
>Barts Health Trust, which has more than 18,750 staff working in six hospitals in east London, had the worst results in England, managing only 12.9 per cent, or 2,416, frontline staff getting vaccinated. This includes nurses and doctors working at the Royal London in Whitechapel, a major trauma centre treating some of the most seriously injured and sick patients in the capital.
They don’t say why.
>GP surgeries managed more vaccinations — with 52 per cent of staff getting the jab — but this was down 10 per cent on the year before. Among staff groups, doctors were the most vaccinated but still achieved only 42 per cent. Only 38 per cent of nurses had the vaccine and the lowest level was among support staff, with 34 per cent.
The more knowledge you have, the more you get vaccinated?
The uptake also goes from anywhere around 60% to 13% depending on the trust… maybe some management problem of sorts, or a reflection of the areas they serve?
Exotic_Jicama1984 on
The staff have seen the direct and detrimental effects of the vaccines and aren’t buying the Koolaid.
WhatsGoingOnThen on
If the people giving it refuse to have it, that says a lot. I’m sure they have seen to many vaccine damaged people to risk it, yet you still see people pushing it while wearing masks alone in their car.
brrlls on
It’s not as easy as you’d think to take time off work
An example is a colleague recently showing symptoms of a viral infection said “If I go home, who picks up the OnCall?”
People complain about seeing staff burned out, but would also complain at their appointments being cancelled at the last minute.
It’s demoralising
FormalHeron2798 on
Given they wanted employees and agency to pay for vaccines its little wonder they refused, any other profession and this stuff would be required to be paid by the employer not the employee
Kindly_District8412 on
Blame those who got into bed with pharma during Covid and threatened people who didn’t want the vaccine with the sack or inability to ever travel
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> Almost 90 per cent of employees at one health trust rejected the offer of a flu vaccination last winter, putting patients at greater risk of infection
Why are black and minority ethnic staff and communities hesitant towards vaccines?
sorry, it should be a basic requirement of the job.
(and if its not and there are spare jobs going, send me one please)
Why though?
More than a little concerning that so many people that work in healthcare have rejected a free medicine that we are all encouraged to take.
Can anyone explain exactly why this the case – without bias or assumption?
So they can look for employment elsewhere, how is that an issue?
Had awful reaction to covid vaccine Inc temporary paralysis and tbh at my age there’s no point in taking it so world also reject
Should have nipped this in the bud around Covid time. But no, we gave into nutters and their crackpot theories on vaccinations.
There’s fairly simple solution: they have to have it or they lose their job. We wouldn’t accept staff refusing to wash their hands, this is no different.
There is a reason they stopped making covid vaccines mandatory for healthworkers. They would have noone in the hospital, so many of my colleagues are passively anti-vax (they’ll get/give their kids them but flu/covid, not happening) it’s mad.
It doesn’t prevent transmission just lessens symptoms, if someone is at risk they should be the one to get the vaccine we’ve been over this a million times.
People like Andrew fucking Wakefield, among others, should be in prison.
If the staff don’t want it, no wonder regular people don’t want them. You can’t shame them into getting the vaccines. I say this as someone who is very vaccinated.
Dont want the jab (as in anti vaxxers), or just dont get around to having it? 2 different things
Our department encourage staff to get it and give you paid time off during work to go for the jab
If you work in the medical system this should be mandatory. No vaccine no job.
This isn’t nutjob America.
Considering that covid vaccines were in “beta” (if not alpha) can you blame them?
Is it strange that the lowest percentage of vaccinated staff are in the areas of the UK with the highest number of foreign employees?
Dependence on workers with low iq, Stone Age ideologies or just plain gullible
Literally took the covid vaccine because my fiancee is a nurse. I didn’t really have an option even though I absolutely didn’t want to take it
>Other problems include hesitancy by black and minority ethnic staff and communities towards vaccines.
Reminder that the NHS relies on us importing limitless numbers of these groups, who disagree with the basic concept of medicine.
Are they taking into account all the people declining because they already had the jab elsewhere. I get mine done at my GPs so I decline the offer at my trust.
It’s the equivalent of wanting to work in a mosque and be a devoted Christian. If you work for the NHS, you need to be having all the vaccines. I’d go as far as to say that if you are smoking you are fired as well.
I cannot have a morbidly obese nurse telling me that I cannot get my eye surgery because I’m 5kg overweight, while I can see them smoking under the “no smoking” sign.
“If i die, I won’t have to work anymore”
– A friend who works in the NHS, 2025.
You mean to tell me our overworked, underpaid and famously mistreated NHS staff are anything from apathetic to flippant about vaccinations? Who could possibly have seen this coming? /s
Good. Not surprised when the paramedics and nurses I’ve spoken to during the “pandemic” were well aware of the amount of bullshit going on.
Of course according to Reddit experts everyone was recommending it back then and now those same people who learned their lessons are now uneducated low iq apes 🤣
Non-paywalled version: [https://archive.is/iICfP](https://archive.is/iICfP)
>Barts Health Trust, which has more than 18,750 staff working in six hospitals in east London, had the worst results in England, managing only 12.9 per cent, or 2,416, frontline staff getting vaccinated. This includes nurses and doctors working at the Royal London in Whitechapel, a major trauma centre treating some of the most seriously injured and sick patients in the capital.
They don’t say why.
>GP surgeries managed more vaccinations — with 52 per cent of staff getting the jab — but this was down 10 per cent on the year before. Among staff groups, doctors were the most vaccinated but still achieved only 42 per cent. Only 38 per cent of nurses had the vaccine and the lowest level was among support staff, with 34 per cent.
The more knowledge you have, the more you get vaccinated?
The uptake also goes from anywhere around 60% to 13% depending on the trust… maybe some management problem of sorts, or a reflection of the areas they serve?
The staff have seen the direct and detrimental effects of the vaccines and aren’t buying the Koolaid.
If the people giving it refuse to have it, that says a lot. I’m sure they have seen to many vaccine damaged people to risk it, yet you still see people pushing it while wearing masks alone in their car.
It’s not as easy as you’d think to take time off work
An example is a colleague recently showing symptoms of a viral infection said “If I go home, who picks up the OnCall?”
People complain about seeing staff burned out, but would also complain at their appointments being cancelled at the last minute.
It’s demoralising
Given they wanted employees and agency to pay for vaccines its little wonder they refused, any other profession and this stuff would be required to be paid by the employer not the employee
Blame those who got into bed with pharma during Covid and threatened people who didn’t want the vaccine with the sack or inability to ever travel
That’s where the level of trust fell