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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Stephen Sumner

NHS staff in Bristol and Weston could keep jobs in vaccination mandate u-turn

The threat of dismissal for hundreds of unvaccinated NHS workers in Bristol and Weston could be lifted amid calls to scrap mandatory Covid-19 jabs.

Calls have been made to some 860 University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Trust frontline staff questioning their vaccination status ahead of the March 31 deadline to have both jabs.

But after the Royal College of Midwives warned of a “catastrophic impact” and the Royal College of GPs and Royal College of Nursing urged a delay to the deadline, a minister has strongly indicated the policy for health and care organisations could be reversed.

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