“I wore PPE, I was testing two or three times a week. I did everything that was asked and I was safe enough for 18 months. It’s madness." Carers have branded the ‘no jab no job’ policy a ‘slap in the face’.
From Thursday November 11, it is mandatory that all care home workers in England must be double-jabbed. In Greater Manchester this means that hundreds of carers and care staff will be losing their jobs.
Leaders say staff shortages will only lead to a return to more ‘bed blocking’, where elderly or vulnerable people cannot be discharged from hospital back into care homes because there isn’t enough capacity. “It’s a dire industry at the moment,” one manager of a home in Trafford says, dispirited and angry that her pleas to government to
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