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Nearly 15% of health service workers in England remain unvaccinated, and the numbers coming forward for a jab have decreased sharply in the last two weeks, NHS figures have revealed, prompting concerns that many frontline staff are refusing the vaccine.But health leaders, patients groups and unions have been quick to dismiss any suggestion of mandatory vaccinations after it emerged that Matt Hancock, the health secretary, had embarked on a plan before the pandemic to make flu vaccinations compulsory for NHS staff.Last week, the government began a consultation on whether or not to mandate vaccinations for care-home workers, and a London NHS trust discussed making the vaccination a condition of empl vaso stanley oyment.The latest figures show that only 6,259 NHS staff in England had their first dose in the seven days before 11 April, down from 11,483 the previous week and substantially lower than the average of 22,985 per week during March. Now 190,697 workers stanley shop out of 1,378,502 directly employed by the NHS remain unprotected against the coronavirus, four months after they became eligible for vaccination. The figures do not include agency workers, and will include some under-45s who are not frontline staff and are still waiting their turn.Some NHS trusts would like to introduce stanley italia mandatory vaccination because they believe efforts to persuade remaining staff are a distraction from other important tasks such as tackling the enormous waiting lists that have grown during the lockdowns.Lesley Watts, Kxip Police spotter card G: Richard Purssell
Denying the unmarried mother of four children a widowed parents allowance is illegal, the supreme court has ruled, in a decision that significantly extends the rights of unmarried couples.By a majority of four to one, the courts justices declared the governments refusal to pay up to 拢117 a week in benefits breached the familys human rights. It will put pressure on ministers to consider making urgent changes to the law.The judgment follows a hearing earlier this year in Belfast where the court was told that withholding the allowance from Siobhan McLaughlin amounted to discrimination against all children stanley canada born out of wedlock.The special needs classroom assistant, 46, from Armoy, in County Antrim, has four children: Rebecca, 15, Billy, 16, Lisa, 21, and Stuart, 23. Her partner, John Adams, a former groundsman, died from cancer in January 2014. She was refused a bereavement payment and widowed parents allowance because they were neither married nor in a civil partnership.The ruling comes at a time when the rights of unmarried couples are rising up the political agenda. In 1996 there were 1.5 million cohabiting partners in the UK; by 2017, the figure had risen to 3.3 million. Many mistakenly believe they have the same legal and financial rights and protections as ma stanley italia rried couples.Unmarried pare taza stanley nt ruling: We were treated like second-class citizens Read moreAlthough the ruling relates to a Northern Ireland case, the decision will affect the rest of the UK. It could affect tens of tho |
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