Share your views about making Coronavirus vaccination a condition of deployment in older adult care homes
How to share your views
You can share your views by:
Responding to the online survey
You can find more information by:
Reading the consultation document on the GOV.UK website.
The deadline for responding to the consultation is Friday 21 May 2021.
Background information
Older adults living in care homes have been significantly affected by the Coronavirus pandemic because of their heightened risk to Coronavirus infection, often with devastating consequences, as well as the risk of outbreaks in these closed settings.
Ensuring very high levels of vaccination of people living and working in these settings is an essential public health intervention.
While vaccination uptake rates are increasing slowly week on week, there are still a high number of older adult care homes which do not have the level of protection needed to reduce the risk of outbreak.
To increase vaccine take up, the government is considering amending the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
This would mean older adult care home providers could only use those staff who have received the Coronavirus vaccination (or those with a legitimate medical exemption) in line with government guidance.
