Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Lord Ribeiro (Conservative). It was answered on Thursday, 26 October 2017.
NHS: Winter Staffing Levels
- Question
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My Lords, the only way in which to increase staffing levels in anticipation of the flu epidemic is through agency staff, which is going to cost a huge amount of money. Surely, the better thing to do would be to ensure that all health staff are vaccinated so they are at least healthy when the epidemic hits us—if it does.
- Answer
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My noble friend talks with great authority on this issue and he is quite right. The NHS is offering all front-line health staff free vaccinations. NHS England has confirmed that it will also be paying for care workers in social care settings to get free jabs. Furthermore, we are now, for the first time, inoculating in school children aged between two and eight, who are sometimes known as “superspreaders”. This is to ensure that, if such an epidemic were to happen, we would be as well prepared as ever.
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- Oral question
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- 785 c972
- Session
- 2017-19
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- Supplementary
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- House of Lords chamber
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- NHS Staff
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