HSE confirms prison nurses will be vaccinated as frontline healthcare workers

HSE confirms prison nurses will be vaccinated as frontline healthcare workers - but timeline remains unclear
Some prison nurses were told they would not be included in the healthcare worker stage of the vaccine roll-out at all.
By Nicky Ryan
Saturday 16 Jan 2021, 7:30 AM
Jan 16th 2021, 7:30 AM
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HSE BOSS PAUL Reid has written to the Irish Prison Service (IPS) to assure the organisation that prison nurses will be vaccinated as frontline healthcare workers,
TheJournal.ie understands, but when exactly this process will begin remains unknown.
It’s believed that some prison nurses were informed that they would not be included in this stage of the vaccine roll-out when other healthcare workers are being vaccinated and would have to wait until key workers were called, despite their frontline duties.

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