Health trusts in the city could lose nearly 10 per cent of their workforce when Covid jabs become mandatory in less than three months' time.
From April 1, patient-facing healthcare staff in England will need to have had both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine unless they have a medical exemption.
Nearly 2,500 healthcare workers in the city are still to be fully vaccinated according to the latest data from NHS England, which amounts to just under 10 per cent of the total number of 25,830.
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However, more than 93 per cent across the two trusts have now received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Uptake of the jab has been slower at North Bristol NHS Trust - which runs Southmead Hospital, among others - where 90.1 per cent of healthcare workers are fully vaccinated.
In comparison, 90.6 per cent of healthcare staff at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust have received at least two doses of the vaccine.
NHS national medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: “The NHS has always been clear that the life-saving Covid vaccination is the best protection against the virus, and while it is currently a recommendation for health and care staff to be vaccinated, it will soon become a legal requirement.
“The overwhelming majority of staff in NHS organisations, nine in 10, have already had their second jab, and NHS employers will continue to support and encourage staff who have not yet been vaccinated to take up the offer of the first and second doses ahead of April 1, when regulations come into effect.”
The Royal College of Nursing called last week for a delay on the implementation of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for NHS staff in England as the service faces major staff shortages.
Mandatory Covid jabs could cost the NHS up to 73,000 frontline staff, the government’s own impact statement has previously suggested.
The Department of Health and Social Care has previously said there may be a “significant” hit to the health service workforce as millions are told ‘no jab, no job’.
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