Consultation launched on staff COVID-19 vaccines in care homes with older adult residents

Consultation launches today on making COVID vaccination a condition of work for people who are deployed in these homes to further protect older people living in care homes, who are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19, with some providers already implementing similar policies.

SPS commentary:

Experts on the social care working group of SAGE note that 80% of staff and 90% of residents need to be vaccinated to provide a minimum level of protection against outbreaks of COVID-19. Only 53% of older adult homes in England are currently meeting this threshold.

Department of Health and Social Care