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Retired medics trying to help Covid vaccination drive say offers being ignored
People wanting to return to NHS front line complain of unanswered emails and wall of bureaucracy
1 January 2021 • 8:00pm
Retired doctors and nurses desperate to help with the UK s mass vaccination drive have been kept out by bureaucracy and seen their offers of assistance ignored.
Earlier this week, The Telegraph revealed that, of the 40,000 doctors and nurses who applied to return to the service in March, 30,000 were eligible but only 5,000 had been given jobs by July.
Following the approval of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine earlier this week, the Royal College of GPs warned that the jabbing workforce would require a significant boost in order to deliver doses to vulnerable groups as quickly as possible.