No jab, no job: Ethics panel backs compulsory vaccines for health workers

No jab, no job: Ethics panel backs compulsory vaccines for health workers

Frontline healthcare jobs should be conditional on getting a Covid-19 vaccine and staff should be redeployed if they refuse, a group of ethicists said.

The verdict, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, comes as the UK carries out a consultation on whether care home staff should get mandatory shots.

Italy became the first country in Europe to require vaccines for health workers in March, a measure it said was intended to protect medical staff.